TURKEY ADVENTURES DAY 2: TROY AND THE ACROPOLIS

I LOVE TURKEY!! (Well the parts I've seen, at least). It's so gorgeous here and the sunny hot weather is such a large contrast to Britain's grey skies and rain! Although I hate sun lotion with a burning passion and with the jet-lag and stuff, I'm absolutely shattered!!! And the walking we've been doing did not make it any better...even if I did have a bit of sleep/daydream time on the 7-8 hours we spent on the coach in total... Today, I woke up at 6:30am...early right? But of course, that's in Turkish time, so in England that would be 4:30am...not funny!

Firstly, we travelled to Troy by coach (of course) and I was so excited because I've read a book called 'The Song Of Achilles', which is one of my favourite books, and my favourite adult book. It's about the Trojan War, so of course it's set in Troy, as well as other places such as Greece. And even though  Troy is just ruins now, it was so much fun and an amazing experience!!! The feels!! All the time there I was just thinking 'omg Achilles and Patroclus and Hector and Paris were here!!! *fangirls*.' I loved it.

Also, whilst we were walking back to the coach, I saw the most adorable little terrapin (a type of tortoise) on the path!!! Well, actually I kinda nearly squished it, but after my friends and I made a huge fuss about it, others started coming to see what was happening. Someone even picked it up - sorry the picture is terrible, it's actually a picture of a picture... But anyway, it's all to scale and the little cutie is so adorable!!

A few hours later, we stopped in a tiny village, and were told to find lunch on only one of the roads...in the end we couldn't find anywhere to eat so we ended up buying bread rolls, Dairylea cheese, chilli Doritos, Snickers, and bananas to make our own picnic! And lol it was hilarious, sitting in the burning sun whilst trying to smear cheese with our hand-sanitised fingers and slip Doritos into the bread roll...fun times... And this image makes it look disgusting, but it was actually really tasty!!

After that very messy makeshift lunch, it was another coach journey, this time to the acropolis!!! Athens is most famous for their acropolis, but actually, an acropolis is just the highest part of a city. So we went to one in Pergamon, and we had to take a cable car up and down!! Even so, we still had to walk tons once we were up there. But anyways, the view was AMAZING!!!! I'm not even lying when I say that I didn't put my camera down at all, I was taking photos left and right, the view was just gorgeous, this picture definitely does not do it justice...

At the acropolis, there was a really steep-sided theatre (the Greek/Roman sort) and we had to walk from the top of it to the stage, which in my opinion was amazingly fun, but most of my friends were terrified. We later found out that the side of the theatre was 70°, almost vertical!!!!

Now back to the coach!! I swear, half the time we've spent in Turkey has been inside a coach This time, we were going to our next hotel, thank god. Still, the coach journey was about 3-4 hours, so we stayed on the coach for about the same amount of time as yesterday...it's a pain in the butt, literally. However, after ignoring the painful bum and the need to go to the toilet, it was nice, I guess. We got to see flamingos in a lake, they were really pretty, and we also saw shepherds with their sheep. And they were proper shepherds too, with their staff/hooky-thing, sitting in the middle of their sheep. It was so cool!!!

And finally, our hotel. It's really good - 4 star. The room is slightly too small and cramped, but it's really nice and there's a balcony so that's cute! Anyways, I'm tired now, so bye!!!! Xxx