Gallipoi--Final

Ok, just a bit of the travel back and forth.  Our bus had to take the ferry from Canakkale to Eceabat, and back, crossing the Dardanelles ea...

Gallipoli 4--Ataturk's Speech

Down at the Ari Burnu cemetery, there's another monument, this one quoting from a speech that Ataturk made in 1934.  Suleyman, our guide...

Gallipoli 3--Monuments and Trenches

The high point of the peninsula, where you can look to either the Aegean Sea or the Dardanelles, was once heavily fortified, and is now crow...

Gallipoli 2--Lone Pine

Away from the beach, up in the hills, there is another cemetery at the site of the battle of Lone Pine/Kanli Sirt.  There's an involved ...

Gallipoli 1

Greetings!  Of course, we're all back home now, but I am going to go ahead and write up the rest of our trip, over the next few days.  C...

Last Day in Greece

     I like Greece, but I like Turkey more. Although, I have noticed that the Greeks like alot of American music. It's cleaner in Greece...

Athens!

Hey, sorry we've been "away"--the satellite web on the ship was too expensive for any of us to use. We'll fill in missing ...