Magic Carpets

This would have been 5-24, leaving behind Canakkale, and heading south, first to Bergama (ancient Pergamon), and on to Kusadasi (the modern ...

Jet Lag is Setting in!

It seems like forever since we were in Turkey.  From Turkey we headed to Greece for four days and then headed back to the states!!  Flying b...

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...