Not all was happy sunshine though - we also went for a day to the battlefields and war memorials of Gallipoli, which was a depressing lesson in the sheer madness and human waste that war is. The whole peninsula is jampacked with war memorials (Turkish and allied beautifully equal but separate) and cemeteries, over many square kilometers. For tonight, I will show you one of each.
Later, I will try to come back to show you more. For the overwhelming feeling of the tiny beachheads, overlooked by Turkish fortresses, where the allied tried to land their invasion force, was sadness. Over the desperate attempt, and by the look of it how badly backed it was by topographical realities and facts...
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