Anzac Day, always on the 25th day of April, is to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp who fought the Ottoman Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula in modern day Turkey for the control of Constantinople - capital of the empire who was allied with Germany during World War I.
I love Turkey, both as a food and as a country.
We went to Canakkale when we were in Turkey last summer... unfortunately we didn't get to see the battlefields of the Gallipoli Campaign but we did see Troy and Canakkale it was awesome.
To celebrate Anzac Day I will post pictures from Canakkale, Troy and Constantinople/Istanbul (my favorite city). We have also celebrated by not doing anything all day and watching the Nat Geo channel's special marathon for Anzac Day.
Our do nothing day was definitely well deserved: yesterday was pretty stressful, we gathered all the information required for the apartment rental application for a place we really like in Spring Hill. We got the necessary documents, copies, filled out the application completely and then arrived at the inspection with 30 or so OTHER people interested in the same apartment! I sneakily gave the property manager our application and I know we were the first ones so hopefully it goes well. We drove an hour to Bribie Island in the Sunshine Coast...there was no sunshine, no waves...only rain and traffic.... lame!
Highlight of driving to the Sunshine Coast: We kept hearing these loud lorikeets from the trees just chirping like crazy...it was almost scary how loud they were but it was really cool.
I love Turkey, both as a food and as a country.
We went to Canakkale when we were in Turkey last summer... unfortunately we didn't get to see the battlefields of the Gallipoli Campaign but we did see Troy and Canakkale it was awesome.
To celebrate Anzac Day I will post pictures from Canakkale, Troy and Constantinople/Istanbul (my favorite city). We have also celebrated by not doing anything all day and watching the Nat Geo channel's special marathon for Anzac Day.
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Cannakale
Troy
Our do nothing day was definitely well deserved: yesterday was pretty stressful, we gathered all the information required for the apartment rental application for a place we really like in Spring Hill. We got the necessary documents, copies, filled out the application completely and then arrived at the inspection with 30 or so OTHER people interested in the same apartment! I sneakily gave the property manager our application and I know we were the first ones so hopefully it goes well. We drove an hour to Bribie Island in the Sunshine Coast...there was no sunshine, no waves...only rain and traffic.... lame!
Highlight of driving to the Sunshine Coast: We kept hearing these loud lorikeets from the trees just chirping like crazy...it was almost scary how loud they were but it was really cool.
Wow, I guess rentals are scarce? Keeping you both in my heart and looking forward to reading more about your adventure.
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Thanks Linda! It's scarce and the fact that we don't know about the neighborhoods, the average costs for the area etc. but we found our place...woohooo we move in tomorrow =)
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