Troy

Not sure what happened to the last blog with all those capitals but we'll try to do better this time. One day during our holiday in Turkey we went to Troy. It was a fairly cloudy day. Archaelogically speaking there has been 9 cities built one on top of the other and there is evidence to show each layer, some built with mud brick, others granite and others limestone bricks. Unfortunately in the mid 1800's a German Heinrich Schliemann bought some of the land off the villagers and began to excavate and pillage the land. He called himself an archaelogist!! Thankfully some of the villagers did not sell but it appears most of the wealth and treasurers were in the bit that was sold and the treasures found themselves in Germany, where the Russians took the treasure as war reparations after WW2 and now they are in Russian museums, where they have stayed ever since. His trenches that were dug solely to find treasure did quite a bit of damage as he wasn't really interested in exploring the truth about previous civilisations.  There is something to be said about returning treasures to where they should belong.  After our visit to Troy we wandered the streets of Canakkale before catching the ferry over to the other side (about a 15 minute ride) back to Eceabat. Eceabat has a good harbourside depiction in models and stories about Gallopoli which we wandered around for a while before returning to Istanbul.