Wow what a sobering day today was..... We left Istanbul about 7-30 and travelled South along the coast of the Marmara Sea through flat undulating country side very similar to Australia.... The houses are rather 'boxy', 2 or 3 stories and painted bright colours. The land was used for growing sunflowers for oil, some wheat, corn and further south rice and olives.... a few goats and cows but no sheep in this region. Turkey has a White Power policy and we passed quite a few wind farms established on the hills. I wish Australia would get on board.... it may influence the Carbon Tax...We traveled along the Aegean to Anzac Cove and the WW1 Memorials and what a beautiful and moving place..... very simple and quite. The cove is just beautiful and to imagine the horrors that occurred there was painful. We drove up onto the plateau where there are memorials to individual battles and involvement by the allies. All very peaceful and well presented by the Turkish Government.
There was mention of a Captain Dawson from Rylstone.
I will have to pass the photo over to Fiona.. for the wiki..... As we are right on the water sea food has been part of most of our meals and today I ate a whole fish.. a grilled sea bream.... Hhmm I'll try again tomorrow.... Luckily it was very small... I would have thrown it back if I had caught it... Poor thing.... Overnight a Canakkale and tomorrow more coach travel after visiting Troy.... Brad Pitt has left the building but he left his wooden horse. cheers sc
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