Troy, Pergamum & Kusadasi 15th June 2010 Another early start to the day, but it wasn't a long trip until we reached the ancient city of Troja, or Troy. We saw the big wooden horse, that the Turks made in the 30's, and climbed up and through the rickety structure. We then moved on to the ancient city, which was actually 9 different cities built on top of each other dating from 3000BC through to 52AD. Even though it was early in the morning it was too dam...

Gallipoli & Cannakkale 14th June 2010 On the bus bright and early for the 4ish hour drive across to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Along the way Kev told us a bit about the history of the war with the ANZAC's as well as the Turkish soldiers that battled there. He put a rather dull documentary on the TV on the bus too, which I have to admit I dozed through a little.We made a couple of stops along the way, one of which was a truck stop service station where we ...

Istanbul 12th & 13th June 2010 We arrived into Istanbul just after lunch, and after some confusion with purchasing our visas we were out of the airport and met by a representative of Travel Talk - the tour company we were using for Turkey. We had to wait for about 8 others off our flight before we could make the hour-long journey to our hotel in Istanbul. When we finally arrived at our hotel (After spending 45 minutes in a traffic jam, which we could...

London Packing Up 8th - 11th June 2010 So we had 4 days to pack up almost 2 years of our life and move out of London. We spent the first day just catching up on Egypt; basically washing and facebooking Matt and Jodie came over throughout the week to pack boxes that we are shipping back to Aus -it's amazing how much you really can accumulate in 2 years (What's also surprising is how little we've managed to live with - can't wait to get home and and play w...

Cairo 6th & 7th June MoMo managed to get us an early check in back at the same hotel we stayed at at the beginning of the trip. Dan and I were fortunate to get the mega huge suite. It had room to sleep about 9 people, with 2 separate bedrooms, a massive lounge room and sitting area, and kitchen! We dropped our bags off, and instead of saying goodbye to MoMo (As he was now officially finished work and could head home) he decided to take us out and abo...