Istanbul - End of tour 19th & 20th June Our wake up call was atsupposed to be at 5am, to give everyone time to have breakfast, get organised and be on the bus ready to go at 6am. After only making it to bed around 2, I knew that it was going to be difficult. When our alarm went off at 5am I got out of bed (Still a lot drunk) managed a shower, but for some reason I went back to bed. We were woken at 3 minutes to six when the maid came into our room to ch...

Cappadocia 17th & 18th June 2010 Today was the day none of us were really looking forward to. A 12-hour bus journey into central Turkey, the region of Cappadocia. It was another early morning and lots of movies on the bus, as well as lots of stops with lunch at a big shopping centre so we finally had a bit of choice as to what we were going to eat for lunch. Dan and I chose a yummy Turkish pizza. It was a 'point at the non English menu and hope for the ...

Ephesus & Pamukkale 16th June 2010 The morning was off again bright and early, and the first stop for the day was at the ancient city of Ephesus (I was getting pretty sick and tired of ancient cities - after a while they just look like piles of marble), but this one was really impressive. Busloads were arriving, and we were there fairly early, but we had to push and shove our way through lots of them. We were especially jealous of the group that had mat...

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 ...