So... If you click on the link below it will take you to a map of our trip!
It is the words that are orange, you have to click them :)
The plan so far!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
It builds
Last year Mick got a bit organised.
He booked our flights and an amazing tour for Anzac Day. You are unable to enter the Gallipoli peninsular independently you MUST be part of a tour.
We fly out of Brisvegas on the 8th April and land in Istanbul on the ninth, in the morning. We are spending three of four days in Istanbul in a delightful looking motel five minutes walk from everything!
We then have some time to explore before taking the Anzac Tour (which by the way sounds amazing!!) Four days of exploring Cape Helles, Istanbul, Sulva Bay and a boat trip, Troy... wow, wow, wow! - More on that later.
That was pretty much all we had locked in.. until...
When chatting with our lovely friend Hayley, whom now resides back in the UK she instilled in us an idea: As we miss her and her charming company and as she is in need of a little holiday, she suggested that we meet her in PRAGUE for the weekend! What a concept! But hey, we are half way around the world already, what are another couple of countries to cross! So, why not.
This planted a seed of enthusiasm in Mick I think, the next thing I knew we were also taking in a little bit of Italy!!!!
We found a magnificent website 'Rome2Rio' highly recommend this and will be using it much more in the future.
So far our itinerary looks a little bit like this:
9-11 Istanbul
12-20 Discovering Turkey - Izmir, Ephesus, Antayla, Cappadocia
21-25 Gallipoli Tour
26-28 Rome
29-30 Venice
Prague for the weekend (Cause we can)
4-7 Vienna and Budapest
8 Istanbul and home
I have spent some time and will continue to do so looking at Vienna and Budapest!!! Wow!!! The home of poets and artists and brilliant talent and minds!!! My head is spinning right now!!! I am so excited and beside myself. I feel eternally grateful and lucky and can't WAIT to take this adventure on full speed.
I hope you choose to join us. I will post as many hints and tips as I can along the way and I hope you enjoy the read/ride just as much as we do!
Much love xxx
The Beginning
So..... Where do you start a blog? At the beginning I guess.
To do this I need to backtrack a little. As most of you would know, or will do from now on, I am married to quite a remarkable man. He is kind, caring and has one of the nicest hearts I have ever known. His name is Michael, but we know him as Mick and he is my rock and my love.
Mick is a veteran and was in the Australian Army for more than a decade. He has been deployed in Timor and Malaysia. He is very passionate about all things army. His dear friends mother told me this Christmas that she was very happy that he had gotten to do what he had wanted from a small boy and serve in the Army. One of his own mum's favourite stories was how she used to wake up with 'Army Men' in her bed!!! (Mick's toys, not the real ones!). It is with that little bit of background information that will lead us to this trip to Gallipoli.
That is where we begin. This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Gallipoli. On the 25th April, 1915 there was a landing on the Gallipoli peninsular at the Northern bank of the Dardenelles and this is where the allied troops from Australia and New Zealand saw their first major military action during WW1. Anzac Day is synonymous with Australian courage and pride and a day very dear to our hearts. It has long been Mick's dream to attend a dawn service in Gallipoli and really this one was a pretty special one, so..... Into the ballot we went.
This year as the demand was expected to be quite high on people wishing to attend, there were strict numbers restrictions and if you wanted to be there you would need to enter a ballot to secure a spot. We both entered, Mick got the spots! Over the moon with excitement step 1 was complete.
That all happened last year. Then there were weddings and honeymoons and Christmases and New Years Eves to keep us busy, until now.
2015 is upon us. Time to get into Turkey mode!
We hit the internet. Where to go? What to do? It is such a long way over there, we should really think about this!
To do this I need to backtrack a little. As most of you would know, or will do from now on, I am married to quite a remarkable man. He is kind, caring and has one of the nicest hearts I have ever known. His name is Michael, but we know him as Mick and he is my rock and my love.
Mick is a veteran and was in the Australian Army for more than a decade. He has been deployed in Timor and Malaysia. He is very passionate about all things army. His dear friends mother told me this Christmas that she was very happy that he had gotten to do what he had wanted from a small boy and serve in the Army. One of his own mum's favourite stories was how she used to wake up with 'Army Men' in her bed!!! (Mick's toys, not the real ones!). It is with that little bit of background information that will lead us to this trip to Gallipoli.
That is where we begin. This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Gallipoli. On the 25th April, 1915 there was a landing on the Gallipoli peninsular at the Northern bank of the Dardenelles and this is where the allied troops from Australia and New Zealand saw their first major military action during WW1. Anzac Day is synonymous with Australian courage and pride and a day very dear to our hearts. It has long been Mick's dream to attend a dawn service in Gallipoli and really this one was a pretty special one, so..... Into the ballot we went.
This year as the demand was expected to be quite high on people wishing to attend, there were strict numbers restrictions and if you wanted to be there you would need to enter a ballot to secure a spot. We both entered, Mick got the spots! Over the moon with excitement step 1 was complete.
That all happened last year. Then there were weddings and honeymoons and Christmases and New Years Eves to keep us busy, until now.
2015 is upon us. Time to get into Turkey mode!
We hit the internet. Where to go? What to do? It is such a long way over there, we should really think about this!
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