I have been winning all day. It started this morning when I thought I had to catch a dolmus to the otogar then bus to Izmir. The guy at the guesthouse took me to the balcony and pointed to a car and said "dolmus station just there, they will take you to Izmir"' Even the dolmus has a trolley dolly and this time was a young boy and not nearly as yukky as fat ******* yesterday. I ran into a kiwi couple I met yesterday and they are heading the same way as me but on a...

Ive come here for the ruins. This place was built about 200bc by some old bloke I have never heard of but the thing is it had what was then the worlds biggest library and a Asclepion (hospital) that made this place the worlds greatest repository of knowledge outside Egypt. And they still let me in. Canakkale was really nice. It was to me a bit European with all the cafes along the waterfront. The weather has turned really good I have been in shorts and t shirt fo...

That's right the one with the horse, and Helen, Achilles (the guy with the tendon in his leg) and Iliad. There are tacky second rate ruins here that have been poorly excavated. It was worth the 10lra for the dolmus there and back but I think they have a cheek charging 20lr to get in. Im in Canakkale and they have an outdoor museum of old torpedoes and mines so I went to look at them as well. The water front is full of restaurants and has a very European feel whic...

There wasn't a cloud in the sky. It is the best day I have had in Turkey, pity I had to spend the day on the bus. I was told to be ready between 6.30 and 7, but they didn't pick me up till 7.30. I had to walk to the bus, about 300mtr down the road in front of Hagia Sopfia, if they had told me I could have met them there. There was over 20 busses and after I was checked off they said any bus. A lot of tours have been sub contracted out to Crowded House Tours who a...

My last day here so I went up for breakfast early to check the weather (my room doesn't have a window) The sun is shining and the clouds are starting to break up. There are 2700 mosques in Istanbul and I only have about 2660 to go so I thought I would check out a couple when I was out. I was headed to the Egyptian spice market to get some supplies for tomorrow and have lunch. I walked about a km to Bayazit Sq and the sky was black as so I turned around and came h...