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Had a lovely meal last night – a sea bass big enough for 2 to share. Really well cooked over charcoal. Awoke to a beautiful blue sky & no wind unlike yesterday. Off to the showers – no hot water. We reckon the kitchen had used it all last night & it was too early to be refreshed. I washed Cathy's hair in the outside washing up area which was separate.
We passed so many old relics of WW2, bunkers, firing positions etc. We wanted to stop at a memorial but saw it late & a coach was too close behind to brake too hard; we've made a note to go on our return. The town of Gallipoli is huge & not what we were expecting so didn't drive in
Off now to catch a ferry – we were lucky & one was in the harbour & we drove straight on. 60 Lira which is about £15. Got talking to a Scots couple; I saw the number plate & went & had a chat as we hadn't seen a GB plate in ages. Turns our they went to, & met at, Birmingham University 1976 – 1979 3 years after
me. She studied....Geography! Yet another coincidence – it's a small world unless you're driving....
A long journey on new dual carriageway, the old road, road works, steep mountain roads so it was quite tiring. We decided to stop at Bergama as we were both tired after this long day where we found the camp site we had sourced on the web the night before next to a hotel. When I say campsite, I mean a grassed area with a power point box next to a 30m pool which we had to ourselves, nice. Had a swim before tea which a bit chilly but 'ok once you got used to it' I had a chat with the hotel manager & he kindly gave me the password for the hotel's wifi - it must be a strong signal as I can use it a good 100m from the building..
Up & shower – cold again. Here you have more sunshine than you can shake a stick at but the world's worst plumbers. Debating now where to get to tonight, though we will get past Izmir. Hopefully we won't see IKEA from the road &/or Cathy forgets...
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Michelle Tiley
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Ikea
David you have know chance 1, it's shopping 2, she female 3, And this is Cathy we're talking about, Be thankful it's only. IKEA it could have a Harvey Nic's..... Then you'd really be worried .... ?? xxxx