turkey; gelibolu {gallipoli}
{Monday October 28th} We got up at 7 this morning to pack up and get ready for the day. Around 8 we went upstairs for breakfast, which was the same as the past two mornings. Apparently the hotel right across the street was on fire last night and there was a bunch of fire trucks but I didn't hear anything. Our ride for the next week We met our bus out front at 9am, but by the time everyone decided to get a coffee it was actually 9:20 before we left. We will be traveling 330km to Cannakule today. It should be 5 hours of driving, however the traffic in Istanbul is the second worst in the world so one is never quite sure. Istanbul has a population of over 14 million people and a diameter of 100km. By some miracle, we got out of the city without any traffic. At 11 we stopped in Tekirdad for a twenty minute break at a gas station. We had to pay 1 lira to use the washroom but it was very clean. I also got a Turkish tea and a chocolate bar to...