Akol Hotel

... -KA-lay,' with a slight pause between 'k' sounds. The stress on the middle two syllables makes it sound vaguely Hawaiian. Our hotel was very close to the Dardanelles, and we could see a large WWII memorial across the water on the Gallipoli peninsula. ...

... get on a public bus to go to Istanbul. At Istanbul we would be met by someone from the tour company and taken to our hotel. We ended up being put on an earlier bus to Istanbul (2:30pm instead of 4pm) as the tour guide had been asked to do ...

... to spend some time at Gallipoli. The others on the tour did not have a similar interest so we were dropped off at our hotel in Canakkale after our visit to Troy while the others continued on to Istanbul.   This will come as no ...

... visit to the area even more moving. Overnight stay in Canakkale where the Trojan Horse, used in the movie Troy, is situated on the seafront near our hotel.  A quaint vollage with many busy streets ncluding a bazaar.  A pity not stay ...

... vessel back in Istanbul, however we made it across safely, apart from a few splashes from the windblown chop. Our hotel for the next 2 nights is the Akol. 4 star rated and probably almost there. Right on the waterfront, 6th floor with a water view. No ...

We  rose early the next morning for a bus trip along the coast of European Turkey, to a ferry which took us to the Asian side.  From there we headed to the  ruins of Troy where we climbed a mock version of the Trojan Horse before walking ...