We were up before 6:00 and ready for our pick-up by 6:25. (Didn't come till 6:45.) We drove through the suburbs in a thick fog, past quite tidy houses, flower beds and commercial and light industrial areas. There were only 3 others in the minibus, but by the time we stopped for breakfast at 8:45 another bus had joined us . We got to Eceabat for lunch at 12 and then reshuffled with some going to Gallipoli and the rest sailing across The Bosporus to Troy. We were there for about 2 hours and then we went back to Eceabat. All of the others then were driven back to Istanbul, but we checked in to the hotel.
We were sorting ouselves out when we had a call from our tomorrow's guide. We are the only ones booked for the morning, so he suggested that we start straight away and go for a drive with his wife and little daughter. I think we are the only ones at the hotel too, so it was sorted it with them and off we went. First we stopped in a village and had pancakes for dinner, with tomatoes, cucumbers and yoghurt dressing. Then we went to various Cape Helles WW1sites including 3 British sites and the huge Turkish memorial. The sun had set by the time we got back.
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