Maydos Hotel Canakkale

... fınally fıgured out that something was happenıng at theır local stadium. We walked there, and I pıcked an entrance to go though and ınto the stadium. Upon getting ın, we notıced a rather dısproportonate number of men ın suits, and mılıtary personnel. Then we notıce the seats were covered ın a specıal blue cover (and nowhere else ın the stadium ...

... regions. <br> <br>The second room displayed the uniforms of the Turkish, Australian, NZ, English and French soldiers and even included Ataturks uniform and had a collection of relics from the sites, belt buckles, watches, bullets, shells. The most impressive thing I found was two hand written letters translated into both English and Turkish, the first was from an Australian soldier to his mother/family - telling them of the logistics of ...

... site, and when the dust settled after his looting, there was some dispute over what it was that he actually "found" there. But there's no disputing that he began the significant excavation and reconstruction process that continues to this day.The fact that nine civilizations were built one on top of the other is no surprise, given the strategic location. Two thousand years ago, Troy was a port city at the mouth of the Dardanelles, and it would have been ...

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... are a 6th-century Christian basilica and more Roman baths (this one for the rich folk). Dating to the 1st century, the baths were constructed in the rebuilding of the city during the reign of Tiberius after a major earthquake severely damaged the city. Now a museum, the baths house artifacts from the area, including a fairly impressive marble sarcophagus, but for the most part, you can skip the exhibit and admire the baths from the outside.<br ...

... on the soil of mother Britain, which so many of the young men wished to visit. The Aussies and Kiwis though flock to the place where their grandfathers died, fighting in vain to gain a hill and peninsula that didn't ultimately matter. They lost. Southerners don't flock to Gettysburg...and in the end they DID win, because they are still Americans. At the Egyptian War Museum we visited on our last day in Cairo, the highly embarrassing 1967 war was conspicuouly ...

... back on track, today we stopped off in Troy. Here we had a guided tour, which again was pretty boring. There is a few ruins and a remake of the Troy horse, but not much to really see. From there we crossed the boarder. In duty free I brought a bottle of Single Barrel Silver Select Jack Daniels for only &#8364;37. In Australia it is over $120:D From here we arrived at our accommodation early arvo. A few of us had a sip of the JD to ...

... been preserved, at Gallipoli nature has reclaimed and healed most of the scars of battle, but the memorials and cemeteries speak eloquently of the horrors the area witnessed. The Allied cemeteries are beautifully maintained by the CWGC and sit side by side with the memorials and graves of the Turkish dead. Gallipoli was where the word ANZAC was born, we have included a photo of the simple memorial at ANZAC cove and also one of the memorial placed by ...

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