Egyptian Obelisk

Transported to Istanbul by means unknown to me.

June 25th 2014
24/06/14 Istanbul: Overnight we will be steaming in a North Easterly course making our way towards the Strait of Dardanelles. Around midnight with the Captain and duty officers on the bridge, we made our way through the Dardanelles Strait. The Dardanelles is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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Welcome to Jim & Colleen's travel blog for 2014, on Tuesday the 20th of May we depart on a 102 night cruise visiting many and varied exotic and not so exotic ports. We depart from Brisbane and return to Sydney on the 31st of August. One of the highlights of this trip will be meeting up with an old Navy mate in Mumbai. From there we head out to Agra for a visit to the Taj Mahal, which will be very exciting. It is a four day trip where we catch planes, trains, rickshaws, and get to spend much time with the locals. After visiting the Taj, we then pick up the ship in Duba... full info

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