No amount of time spent looking at maps can provide the same understanding as actually visiting a place. Nowhere was this made clearer to me when visiting Istanbul, the unique geography of which has played such a key role in its history.
Category: Travel journal
The surprising parallels between the Gallipoli campaign and the Trojan War
Gallipoli and Troy are separated by about three thousand years of history, one shrouded in ancient myth and the other looming all too real in the history of the 20th century. But there are a number of striking parallels between the history of the two sites.