Canakkale

October 9th - In Canakkale they have a great information book. Here they gave us maps of where everything was! We first went to the Wooden horse to take pictures...(Watch "Troy" the movie and you will know what I am talking about!!!...It was filmed in 2004).

Then we decided to look at the maps we got while we ate brunch. Apparently in Canakkale you can only buy soup!...or at 10:00am. Everywhere we went said they could not give us anything except for soup and something to drink. So we had lentil soup...which was delicious! mmm very healthy for you too.

During this time we decided to book our bus ticket/ferry to Istanbul, and go to Troy. Then the following day wake up and catch the ferry at 7:30 to Eceabat....or so that was the plan.

All the buses were booked to the town that we needed to go to...to catch the ferry...so we had to change our plans again...and leave earlier than we wanted to.

By this time it we had to go and catch the mini bus to Troia. Troia is civilization based on the south of the Dardanelles. There are still excavations going on there today. This is the city that witnessed the biggest East-West War in the history....and when they lost the city entirely collapsed. It was interesting to walk through. For supper we had Stew and rice while we waited for the mini bus to pick us up. We were ready for the bus at 4:00 but it never showed up...so we decided to eat until the next bus arrived at 5. We met a lady from England who we walked through the Troy ruins with...she had just retired from teaching and she told us that the previous night she had watched the movie Gallipoli. It was playing in a room inside a hotel near the harbour for free every night. So since Amanda and I were going to Gallipoli the next day we decided to go watch it as both of us knew very little about the war that had taken place there.

So Amanda and I went to the movie...we were the only ones there. The first 45 minutes was a documentary about Troy which was really interesting. They had survivors from the war talk about their experiences etc. By the time the movie was ready to start we decided we had to go to bed because we were catching the earliest ferry over to the peninsula so that we could make the most out of it because we were going to have to leave early to catch our bus.

So we walked back to our "hotel" to sleep.