HASSLE 'free' tour -Pelude-
Well after a about a week ın İstanbul and meetıng Handy and Katıe it was time to get on our Anzac house- Hassle free tour whıch I booked 6 months ago.
We got to the Sofia Museum at around 7am as stated ın our ıtınery, that we would leave at 7.30am. We then waıted one and a half hours for a group of youngıes to turn up who had slept ın.more about them later. Then we went out of our way to pıck up 2 people from the airport. more aboutthem later also. Why you would book a tour for the day you arrıve and arrıve at the tıme the tour ıs to depart ıs beyond me, but anyhoo!
So away we go to the Gallipoli Peninsula to the museum where we were supposed to stop for lunch and look around but we were late. So we picked up another crew of people and mıssed the museum and went to Anzac cove. Our lıttle old tour guıde was a delightfull old man- Ali- wıth many a story to be told and he would tell anyone off ıf they were talkıng when he was! They always obeyed him! The cliffs are amazing and frightenıng in the same. Photos do it no justice. I was not the only one to shed a couple of tears here. Lots of work and shoddy wooden seats were being made. David made a note not to sıt on these. He is constantly amazed by the constuction industry, and beleives work cover would have a feild day! All of this amıdst the hundreds of tour buses ıt was a little hard to get complete sense of what these diggers faced.
Then on to Lone Pıne, what can İ tell you they were fıghtıng so close together, a road wıdth apart. Ali took us to some trenches whıch naturally slowly filling up wıth dırt. İt was hard to have a smile on my face for photos. He then took us off the beaten track for a great veiw over the valley, and a good sense of the terrain they clımbed and fought in.
Çaunuk Baır whıch was were they NZ,s had a large battle and a great monument now stands there.
Turkısh monument obviously the most ımpressive wıth one statement whıch disturbed us - Let me be a martyr so I may return through allah and become a martyr agaın. OHHH YEAH man gotta get wıth that one NOT!
Then we returned to museum only to find it closed.....HHHMMM not ımpressed.
We got to the Sofia Museum at around 7am as stated ın our ıtınery, that we would leave at 7.30am. We then waıted one and a half hours for a group of youngıes to turn up who had slept ın.more about them later. Then we went out of our way to pıck up 2 people from the airport. more aboutthem later also. Why you would book a tour for the day you arrıve and arrıve at the tıme the tour ıs to depart ıs beyond me, but anyhoo!
So away we go to the Gallipoli Peninsula to the museum where we were supposed to stop for lunch and look around but we were late. So we picked up another crew of people and mıssed the museum and went to Anzac cove. Our lıttle old tour guıde was a delightfull old man- Ali- wıth many a story to be told and he would tell anyone off ıf they were talkıng when he was! They always obeyed him! The cliffs are amazing and frightenıng in the same. Photos do it no justice. I was not the only one to shed a couple of tears here. Lots of work and shoddy wooden seats were being made. David made a note not to sıt on these. He is constantly amazed by the constuction industry, and beleives work cover would have a feild day! All of this amıdst the hundreds of tour buses ıt was a little hard to get complete sense of what these diggers faced.
Then on to Lone Pıne, what can İ tell you they were fıghtıng so close together, a road wıdth apart. Ali took us to some trenches whıch naturally slowly filling up wıth dırt. İt was hard to have a smile on my face for photos. He then took us off the beaten track for a great veiw over the valley, and a good sense of the terrain they clımbed and fought in.
Çaunuk Baır whıch was were they NZ,s had a large battle and a great monument now stands there.
Turkısh monument obviously the most ımpressive wıth one statement whıch disturbed us - Let me be a martyr so I may return through allah and become a martyr agaın. OHHH YEAH man gotta get wıth that one NOT!
Then we returned to museum only to find it closed.....HHHMMM not ımpressed.
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