We are on a bus again, heading back to Istanbul leaving the turkish peninsular. This morning we went snorkeling over a WWI wreck. It was deliberately sunk by the ANZACS to create a breakwater at the end of an existing jetty. The waters around the cove are still full of shrapnel and old ammunition that washes into the rocks. It creeps me out a little and saddens me to think of all the death that occurred right where we were swimming just short of 100 years ago. S...

We were up early and on the bus at 6.45 on the way to ANZAC Cove. It's a good five hour bus trip on a lot of patchwork highways but it's worth it! We did a five hour tour of all the sites. The peninsula is really beautiful and it's hard to imagine the bloody battles in such a picturesque backdrop. A nice change of pace from Istanbul here and much appreciated.

Ah a long long day today. We left Malta on a plane at 5.50am so we were up at 1.30 and delivered to the airport by Miriam and Iro. We checked in and the flight was reasonably on time to Istanbul. However the kind people from the Turkish immigration decided to detain all the people with Maltese passports which, of course included me! It was also a silly idea because it was an air Malta flight so after waiting almost an hour standing around, the just returned our p...