Cannakale to Lapseki.

After 2 amazing days at Gallipoli, it was time to get back on the bike and do some exercise. The Grand Anzac Hotel in Cannakale is highly recommended by the 3 of us. Great rooms, good breakfast and our wifi was excellent. Our bikes had there own area and the staff of the hotel could not do enough for us.  Even when we wheeled our bikes out through the restaurant and into the lobby today, the staff came outside to wish us well on our journey.

We hit the cobblestone alleys of Cannakale at 9.30am and soon found ourselves heading north on  the D200 the major highway to Istanbul.  We had a great road with shoulder to ride on all day.  What was even more amazing was the wind had turned 180 degrees, and was now coming from the south.  Since we had strong head winds since Cesme, we thought it would be 3 very tough days to Bandirma.  Not today, beautiful sunny conditions with a strong tailwind.

We stopped at a service station for morning tea along the way. The guys in the service station got us seats, provided tea for free, and were so keen on talking to us about our journey. It's nice to meet nice people in life.

After a cup of tea, biscuits and some fruit, we got back on the bikes to complete the final 15kms to Lapseki. Rolling hills at a fast pace had us at the Hotel Kapton around midday. We couldn't get our room for another hour, so we went for a walk and found a nice cafe to get some lunch. 

During this tour we always planned to have 1 day up our sleeve to play with, just in case we got sick and had to stay another night in a town in Turkey during the final 3 weeks of the tour. Since we've all managed to keep healthy has allowed us to have 3 short days to finish the tour.  Today was 35, tomorrow is 65 and the final day will be just over 70kms.

Tomorrow we ride to the city of Biga, but I'm not sure whether they have anything of historical importance to check out.  We'll just have to wait and see.

The photo above is from our outing in Troy the other day.

Until tomorrow, safe riding.