Remembering my adventures
DECEMBER 4 - 8, 2024 On a hill opposite Çanakkale there is a huge mural of a soldier and a torch. An inscription reads "Stop, Traveler, This Land You Came Without Knowing and Treaded, Is Where an Era Sunk." It is the first two lines of a poem commemorating the Canakkale Victory in WW1. On... Continue Reading →
DECEMBER 4 - 8, 2024 The Battle of Gallipoli was a military campaign in WWI where Britain, France and Russia wanted to weaken the Ottoman Empire by taking control of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Strait; because the Ottoman Empire was in cahoots with the German Empire. Taking control of the two straits would allow a... Continue Reading →
An Old Lady with a Backpack 