Intrepid Group.
As we stepped off the bus, the smell of salty ocean hit my nose. In all my research about Gallipoli and the conflicts of World War I, I had forgotten that such a significant battle unfolded on a stretch of stunning Turkish coastline.
Our minds associate war with barren desert or muddy trenches, but the Gallipoli campaign doesn’t fit this stereotype and when I finally laid eyes on the turquoise Aegean, there was a dissonance that I couldn’t shake.
How could such a beautiful place have hosted such atrocities?
