We finish here tomorrow (Friday). We went to Troy on Sunday. The weather was superb. On the way down we visited a memorial to the French Battleship Bouvet that was sunk on 18 March 1915. Over 600 of her crew perished that day and the Turks put up a memorial to them. We also visited Fort Dardanos, where one of the batteries that repelled the combined British and French Fleet was situated. I reckon the only way to visit a site such as Troy is with your own tame archaeologist. He brought the place alive. The buildings, by themselves, do nothing for me. I've spent quite a bit of time at the Naval Museum where the artefacts we recover are kept. On Monday we handed over the ones we recovered this year. Tuesday was spent relabelling the ones from previous years and yesterday we selected the ones that would make up the core of the exhibition for 2015. Kathy did a bit of prowling around Canakkale on Monday and helped out at the museum on Tuesday. On Wednesday she took a day trip to Bozcaada (Tenedos in Greek times) where she sampled the wines, wandered through the village and had a good time. Today she is doing a walking tour of the battlefield with the New Zealand historian and a couple of others. They climbed from the shoreline right up to Chunuk Bair, which is a hell of a walk. They then proceeded down one of the ridgelines to places like the Nek and Quinn's Post. Meanwhile a few of us visited a display of bricks in the local town of Eceabat (Maidos). Most are over 100 years old and were made in this area. They have some amazing marks on them. The archaeologists were particularly interested as we found many of them on the battlefield, especially on the Turkish Front Line. We can now easily identify their origin. I never thought I would find such a display so interesting. They even made one for me, which I'll attach in the next album. All that is left to do now is to pack up all our gear and return it to store ready for next year, which is the last year planned for the project. I'm not exactly sure what we'll do after we've returned everything. WE still have to pack, and we have a very early start on Saturday. But I expect there will be time to visit Cape Helles and absorb a bit of the history there. The weather turned remarkably at the start of the week. On Monday we were wandering around quite comfortably in shorts and t-shirt. On Tuesday night we received one of the most amazing displays of thunder and lightning I have ever seen. Many of the rooms here became flooded as a result. Daytime temperatures went from the high twenties to the low teens. The locals tell us that is the end of the warm weather for the year. I just hope the same change hasn't yet occurred further south where we're heading on Saturday!