Note: I will call the city Canakkale, but it is pronounced chan-i-KAH-le. The first “c” has a cedilla. If you don’t know what a cedilla is, it is a caterpillar-like monster killed by Rodan.
Posts Tagged ‘Canakkale’
04/28/98: Transit: Istanbul to Canakkale
January 27th, 2009 
Turkiye 04/29/98: Canakkale and Gallipoli
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye Today we visit the beaches of Gallipoli on the Dardenelles. A little history:
In World War I, Turkey sided with Germany and Austria. The Russians wanted a warm water port and had designs on Turkey. Turkey would have sided with the British, French, and Russians if they had gotten assurances that France and Britain would stop [...]
04/30/98: Canakkale and Troy
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye 
I have discovered that if you are washing your hands in the bathroom you open the door a crack. It is tough to turn the knob on the door enough to open it and with wet hands it is even worse.
I have a friend who is Romanian and who insisted when I first met her [...]
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Tags: Canakkale, Egyptian history, Halloween, Homeric Poets, Kapez, Moslems, Pharaoh, Romanian school children, Troy, Truva or Troy 
No Comments »05/01/98: Transit: Canakkale to Bergamo
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye I don’t know if it is Turkish beds, the fact I am doing more in a day, or what. At home I am not a good sleeper. I wake up in the night and cannot get back to sleep. I wake up at 5am. Who knows what all. I had no jetlag coming to Turkey [...]
Posted in Travelogue Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Atlantic Ocean, Bergamo, Canakkale, Gallipoli, Japanese guest, Philatarus, Seleucus, Transit, Turkish beds, Turkish labor No Comments »05/03/98: Salihli, Sardis, and Selcuk
January 27th, 2009 Turkiye I slept fairly well. I may have been up for just a few minutes in the night. How is the cold? Hard to say, I am glad to say. Henceforth I take Vitamin C and an antihistamine. On the other hand it could be the waters from the Asclepion.
For my next problem I have to [...]
