Tagesarchive: Juni 22, 2018

I walked through the cemetery looking left and right along the rows, trying to get a sense of the number of graves.

The freighter to the left is entering the Dardanelles. The Aegean is to the right.

I find the simplicity of the inscription quite moving.

I am curiously happy to see the Aegean this morning. Singing along with Abbey Road, thinking of bicycling in Europe in the 1970s, my impression of America’s promise then. Interesting conversation with a guide in Troia yesterday. He’s been in … Weiterlesen →

The size of the painting on the mountain gives you a sense of the extent to which the peninsula is dominated by monuments related to WW I.