I started wıth Fez today after a long drawn out flıght from Berlın and no sleep. I just absıcally hung around the hostel and met my new boss Vanessa, who ıs lovely. I met a new frıend name Rosy who ıs from Melbourne who I am also doıng the job wıth.We wandered around İstabul, marvellıng at the fact that we now lıve here. I LIVE IN ISTANBUL! Rosy had not been to the Cıstern, and thıs is my favorıte thıng ın İstanbul so we went there, and lıke l...

I had a good sleep and was picked up the next day at 8:30am for my tour of Istanbul.We were all herded onto small buses and taken straight to Agia Sophia, which means "Holy Wisdom", it was originally and old Roman Church, which had then been converted into a mosque by the Ottomans and then converted to a museum by the much loved Ataturk.It was a wonderful sight, I had seen it in books so many times, and even the fact that again, the middle of the great ...

ANZAC cove was our next stop the next day, we were woken at 5am and had a lovely breakfast in the hotel.We then boarded the bus, which was put onto a ship for the crossing of the Dardenelle Straight.The bus was put into the cargo hold with us still aboard and then when it was secured we were allowed to go up on deck.Kylee and I sat talking with Chona, before I got up to stand at the very front of the ship, watching the other vessels doing the crossing.It was unbe...

I was there and I could hear it echoing into eternity, the sound of glory.All those who I had known who had been to Troy and said it was a disappointment, I had lost a certain amount of respect for then and there.I could feel so much at this place, which even if the legendary Trojan War had not really happened, had been attacked again and again. We were all shown around by Chona and then given some free time, in which Kylee and I just went back into the site.I...

My head no sooner touched the pillow then the phone was ringing at 5:30am for my early morning wake up call.I vaguely remember picking up the receiver and instantly hanging up.I awoke again at 6:20am, in a mad panic to rush down to the bus, still wearing my make up from the night before and looking worse for wear.I saw Kylee who looked about the same as me and we both fell asleep on the bus and woke up at Pergamon which was a two hour drive. We exited the bus ...