Place to see: Gallipoli Battlefield, Çanakkale, Turkey

Postcards about Gallipoli Battlefield:

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  9 June 2008
  From:
  steve estvanik

  We took the ferry from Canakale to the battlefield. At the museum, we met a schoolkids from Samsun, exchanged picture taking, then met them several times later as we toured, each time to renewed handshakes and smiles disrupting their teacher’s plans. We then hiked down from the main Turkish lines to Lone Pine, where the ANZAC assault made failed, following rebuilt trenches. Later we made a brief stop at the German cannons dominating the straits. Once able to prevent Allied shipping from traversing to the Black Sea, now they can’t hold off swarms of kids using them as a playground.