Canakkale and Troy - 29th to 30th of August 2011

Having spent a full day in Gallipoli, we made the half hour car-ferry crossing from Europe into Asia at 6pm. We were staying a few hundred metres from where the ferry dropped us off, so we dumped the car and the bags at the hotel in Canakkale, grabbed some kebabs and watched the sunset over the water.
With nothing really to see in Cannakale, we had a (failed) attempt at finding some nightlife, and ended up having a pretty quiet night.

On the road early the next day for an hour and half trip around to Troy. Bad news awaited us, because of the public holiday it wasn't opening until 1pm! Very annoying since we had got up so early! A quick team talk and we decided to trek out to the coast, approximately 40 minutes away, to spend a few hours at the beach until opening time. Thankfully it was a pretty decent beach, although the water a bit nippy for swimming!
40 minutes retracing our steps back to Troy. Obviously a pretty famous place, but not even close to some of the best ruins we've seen. We finished up at Troy mid-afternoon for our drive further south to Foca.