Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
Jesus. Some history there. Home of Sparta and Corinth. Site of the Peloponnesian war (basically Athens versus Sparta, plus allies on both sides).

Awesome.
Some more history here for you Nid...

We hung around the entrance to the Dardanelles waiting for a pilot.



It would be difficult to imagine a much more strategic location through history... this narrow waterway controls access to the Black Sea and also on to the Caspian Sea by a system of locks.



Europe to the north (port) and Asia to the south (starboard).



Being such a strategic position caused the ill-fated Gallipoli landings in 1915/1916.



It's strange to think of the history a little over 100 years ago.

This would have been a very different waterway to navigate through back then.



Here's Cape Helles today, where the British landed with such loss of life.



And further northwards up the coast, away on the distant horizon you can just about see Anzac Cove where the Anzacs landed with an equally awful death toll.



Gallipoli campaign - Wikipedia