Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for 2010

The next morning we got a bit of a sleep in before we made our way out to the city of Troia (Troy) with our new tour guide. He was a youngish guy with long hair, whose English was quite good, and seemed to know every bit of Australian slang possible, and came out with [...]

Another early morning start, this time so we could get on a tour bus to Gallipoli, where we would be going on a tour and seeing where the ANZAC’s landed in World War I. It was a long drive out there from Istanbul, taking about 5 hours in total which for the most part of [...]

Getting to Turkey was tough, but it more than made up for it while we were there. It was amazing. Why was it tough to get there though? Well our plane left at 6.30 in the morning, so we had to be at the airport by about 4.30. Now this wouldn’t be so bad if [...]

That night we headed across the street to some of Mark and Sam’s Contiki friends hotel and had a few drinks before getting on the bus to head down to the port, where the Fanatics had organised a bar for everyone to go to. The bus didn’t end up going far enough so we had [...]

The early night proved to be one of the best decisions as the next morning Shannon and I felt great whereas the others could barely get up, let alone make their way out and onto the bus for the hour or so bus ride to Bunol, where the La Tomatina festival was held. It was [...]