Kesan to Lapseki

Up at 5.45 and on the road before 6.30. Big climb before it gets to hot. The downhill the other side is lovely! Stop a garage for chay (tea) and get chatting to two petrol pump attendants: phone rings, and they pass the phone to me! the voice on the other end says 'can you speak English', I say 'not very well - but I am English', she says 'my son is crying!' I say 'why' - 'because he has lost his phone'. It is only then that it dawns on me that I am speaking into the 'lost phone', that the woman on the phone is probabably Bulgarian and can't speak a word of Turkish! The garage attendants who speak very little English, think this all very funny. Anyway, all ends ok, the son is coming back passed Garage in a weeks time, and will pick up phone. Arrived Gelupulu (Gallipoli) around 1.00. Caught ferry across Dardenelle straits to Lapseki. Really nice to be beside the sea after over 9 weeks 'on the road'