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Monday 25th April 2005

ANZAC Day - Dawn Service

Lots of photos below!!!
Simply click on the links or thumbnail images

An email from Tanya on Thursday 14th April 2005
"I will be going to the ANZAC Day Dawn Service on Monday morning at 5.00am
And a group of us have made arrangements to go to a Turkish restaurant for dinner that night"

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Australia---New Zealand---Turkey

An email from Tanya on Monday 25th April 2005
"I got up at 4.15am and got dressed and rooted around in the cold and dark
- not rain thankfully - and headed off
It was nice and quiet on the roads and my newly serviced bike ran like a dream
As I got closer to Hyde Park I could see people walking up the street
I don't know how many people I expected to be there but there was a lot
The service was really nice and as usual I cried - during the Ode and the Last Post
I came straight to work and have been here since about 6.40am!
I have been told I can go home if I want at about lunch
because I only get paid for what I work so I might just do that
...home for a quick nap then back in for dinner at The Grand Bazaar"

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Click here for five photos of The War Memorial

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Cover of the "Order of Service" program
plus Historical Notes and more details on the Memorial

The Flags --- and some of the crowd at the Dawn Service

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ANZAC Day - Dinner

The Arrangements
Wednesday 20th April 2005
From - Karen Turner
To - Tanya - "damojgreen" - "brendan_markey" - "mickrams" - "jason.glackner"
Subject - Turkish dinner on ANZAC Day
Hey, here is the link for the restaurant we have booked for Monday 25th April 2005 - ANZAC Day
It's a 7.00pm booking so hope that will give everyone enough time to get there
Closest tube will be Bond Street
So have a look and let me or Tanya know if you can come and anyone else you're bringing
Let me know by Friday morning please

The Restaurant - and two reviews

The Grand Bazaar
42 James Street
London W1U 1EX

"I go to this restaurant at least twice a week for my lunch
Two courses for £5.95 in lunch menu and food is just delicious
They don't only serve kebab - they serve absolutely traditional Turkish food
I love eating in Grand Bazaar because it reminds my Mum's food"

"Quite simply the best Turkish restaurant I have ever been too
- sister restaurants with the Galipoli's in Islington - but in my opinion better!!
I go here on a regular basis and the quality never faulters - and it's so reasonable
They do a lunchtime special where two courses are around £6.00
(I think - or not far off at any rate)
or a mezze at around £12.00 a head where there is so much food it can't fit on the table
I bring all my friends and family here who have all agreed how fantastic it is
- and it's a great place to visit while shopping down Oxford Street
or simply to laze the afternoon away - nice wine too!"

An email from Tanya on Tuesday 26th April 2005
......after her dinner at "The Grand Bazaar"
"Dinner last night at the Turkish restaurant for ANZAC Day was really nice
The restuarant had hundreds of lanterns hanging from the roof and was really cosy
Dinner was great!!
We had a selection of starters:-
hommus,
falaffel,
tatziki,
broad beans,
aubergine etc etc etc
and then I had Iksenda for dinner which is lamb pieces with yoghurt,
a spicy tomato sauce and bread
We also had dessert which was something that I don't know what it was
but it was tasty
and then there was also dried apricots stuffed with cream cheese and pistachio nuts
I could have eaten thousands of them - they were so good!"

"The restuarant had hundreds of lanterns hanging from the roof"

Chris, Jason, Tanya, Karen, Damo, Brendon and Jemma (two photos)
......and the lights Tanya mentions can be seen very clearly in this photo

Jason, Tanya, Karen and Damo

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ANZAC Day - 2004

Last year Tanya travelled to Turkey
and celebrated ANZAC Day on the beaches of Gallipoli

Click on the above image to go to that albumn