Our time in Turkey is drawing to its end. Just one more place to visit before leaving this wonderful country. And what a place to finish with, the birthplace of the ANZAC tradition, Gallipoli.
Accessed from the small coastal city of Canakkale, the major sites on the Gallipoli can be seen in a half-day tour. The stories we learnt when we were at school take on a vivid new meaning when standing on the beach at ANZAC Cove and looking up to the steep ridges that the forces were meant to take on the first day. And they almost succeeded, stopped only by Turkish troops led by another of the great men of history, Kamal Attaturk.
We hope you enjoy this part of the journey as much as we did.
Gallipoli, Turkey
December 2022
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I think i posted against the wrong sway sorry Chris.. Was reading the story about the communal bathrooms in Ephesus, juxtaposing their experiences against the luxury we joy with our 21st century plumbing!
I thought you might have 🙂 But it’s a very good question. Ephesus isn’t a small city, so if you were caught short through the night, it could be quite a hike to the communal facilities. Maybe they were mostly used for solid discussions? Perhaps night calls were more of a “the world is my urinal” approach?
Amazing to have such a wonderful guide for your day at Gallipoli. Was this good fortune or something you planned ahead of time?
I had been to Gallipoli before, with my son Malcolm about 15 years earlier, so we had an idea of what to expect. There are many local tour operators, and we thought we would book when we got to Canakkale. We were lucky again, the fellow who owned and ran the hotel said he could arrange the tour for the next day, so that’s how we did it. All the tours are about 4 hours long, and that’s enough to see everything.
We didn’t do the other popular tour to the ancient city of Troy, but that is also a good one.
Kate was fascinated about the toilets. If someone needed to go in the middle of the night, would they walk down to the communal bathroom or just go in a bucket? (We only think about the important things over here in Perth!).
If you are talking about the diggers in the trenches, I suspect toilet etiquette would be the least of your concerns 🙂 Too many bullets flying about to go too far.