Gleaming white marquees, fit for a royal wedding, dominate the landscape beneath the cliffs that claimed so much Australian blood.
As you walk along the road to Anzac Cove, signs warn those who come not only to remember but also to get drunk, that yobbo behaviour will not be tolerated.
"Intoxicated persons will be removed from the site," one sign says.
Another adds: "Illegal drugs are also banned and visitors are reminded that strict penalties for the possession of illegal drugs will be applied."
More than 250 portable or "chemical" toilets, grandstands, a food alley and mobile cappuccino stands at the site of the dawn service would surely have been a strange sight for the Diggers, at the time of the first Anzac dawn on April 25, 1915, many as young as 15 or 16. So would the 50 or so buses that yesterday waited as a traffic jam snarled the roads around this lush Turkish farming area.
Source link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/entering-a-landscape-a-world-away-from-war-at-anzac-cove/story-e6frg6nf-1226044209001
As you walk along the road to Anzac Cove, signs warn those who come not only to remember but also to get drunk, that yobbo behaviour will not be tolerated.
"Intoxicated persons will be removed from the site," one sign says.
Another adds: "Illegal drugs are also banned and visitors are reminded that strict penalties for the possession of illegal drugs will be applied."
More than 250 portable or "chemical" toilets, grandstands, a food alley and mobile cappuccino stands at the site of the dawn service would surely have been a strange sight for the Diggers, at the time of the first Anzac dawn on April 25, 1915, many as young as 15 or 16. So would the 50 or so buses that yesterday waited as a traffic jam snarled the roads around this lush Turkish farming area.
Source link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/entering-a-landscape-a-world-away-from-war-at-anzac-cove/story-e6frg6nf-1226044209001
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