Otel Lampsakos Canakkale
Lapseki, P.O.Box 17800 Canakkale, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
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Lots of crumblıes
... the three sprıngs each of them dıfferent - wealth, health & love - a touchıng scene was the wıshıng wall, thousands of notes tıed onto the wall wıth strıps of toılet paper, ıt was quıte lovely. Of course we added ours.
And last but not least the hıghlıght of our 'tour day' - ın true Turkısh busıness style- a stop at a leather clothıng outlet - ...
Gallipoli
Gallipoli
We left Istanbul at 6am for our trip to Gallipoli .Levent was driving us and he was very quiet he hardly spoke so it felt a bit like 20 questions finding out where we were going. He didn't mind taking us everywhere and was in no hurry as we all wanted to really experience it all.
On a beautiful sunny day it is hard to imagine what took place here so long ago .The stupidity and futility of the amount of lives lost is certainly ...
Troy and Canakkale
... nature of the city with its commanding view over the plains and the Dardanelles from the top of hills.
On to Canakkale our stop for a couple of nights and the site of yet another bloody great wooden horse. This one was donated by Hollywood at the end of the filming of Brad Pitt's epic but completely pants film - Troy. Canakkale itself was a really vibrant university and port town, a little too vibrant given ...


