yannis, that guy from GARP, called me today (to my surprise & happiness!) and since hes going to pass by çanakkale when driving to babakale anyway, he can & will pick me up at ~1pm. (which also means free ride again yay (=)
and finally i will go to GARP, im so happy.
çanakkale is a sweet city, not that big for turkey (~75.000) and not too much to do, but with a beautiful view on the dardanelles. i had an amazing view when i was visiting the gallipoli peninsula (gelibolu), 20mins away from çanakkale by ferry and where the gallipoli campaign (çanakkale savaşları) took place during WWI. one local cser took me with his scooter, so it was a perfect way to explore the island i guess. [edit] there are memorial places all over the island, an impressive place. its hard to imagine that sth like that happened, i mean in general. but gallipoli is a good place, all nationalities there are buried together, in "friendship & peace" how they like to say it. and they are taking care of the place very much, flowers everywhere, plaques on all the important spots, many information about what has happened. so despite the history its a beautiful, peaceful quiet place. every year on 25th april theres also the so-called ANZAC day to commemorate the dead (very special day for australians, theyre coming en masse). [/edit]
i also went to troy (truva) of course, funnily enough with one of those germans i met in istanbul. [edit] theres not much to say about it. theres little left (of course). it definately was worth the trip (4YTL one-way, but 15YTL entrance |P), but still it would have been better to have a guide for that. [/edit]
other than that i got to know a realy nice russian girl and her husband, started more serious turkish-studying, learned a tiny tiny lil bit of trad. turkish dance and finally had time for myself (and for reading, yeah!). loved to tell u guys more about it, but its 4am already and ıll go to bed now. i think ill catch a cold soon, greetings from mr. headache & ms. sore throat...hopefully ill be able to finish this post soon, adding more details and pictures of course.
but well see, GARP is lying ahead of me (=
gnight!
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the trojan horse which was built for the movie "troy"
sweet çanakkale
gallipoli (gelibolu)
troy (truva)
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Cool, freut mich sehr fuer dich :)
ReplyDeleteOh und danke fuer das Katzen-Bild. Unerwarteterweise ist diese Gegend hier relativ Katzen-frei!!! *_____* Was soll das! Die ganzen Hunde machen diese Gegend hier fuer Katzen vielleicht nicht ganz so lebenswert... @_@