Monday, October 20, 2014

Turkey Day1

We were up early to pack.  Since we did most of our packing the night before there wasn't much we had to do. Down for breakfast and back to our room by 8 AM.  Pickup was at 10:15 so we had 2 hours to kill.  It was a long 2 hours. Transfer driver was great and got us to the airport just around 11.  When we che ked in we got a bit of a stàrt, we we I found out our tickets did not include checked baggage.  We had to pony up some money or leave our bags behind.  Then the girl at the baggage check wrote Bay on our tickets,  which we assumed was our departure gate. After lunch we went through the ticket control and stopped to buy a chocolate bar at the duty free. There we were told that we were in the wrong area, and our flight was leaving from the other side of the airport.  We checked the board, and sure enough we were in A3. We still had an hour before boarding so lots of time.  Uneventful 1 hour 35 minuts flight and we were in Istanbul. The rest of the tour was due in about 1 1/2 hours. Their flight was about an hour later than the schedule arrival.  So almost 6 hours waiting I  airport terminal.  Made for  a along day.  Supper was at a very nice restaurant,  except everything we want ted, they were out of.  Back to our room, where the temperature was 25.4 C and climbing.  Called the desk, said they would fix it from there., and should notice the difference in 1 minutes. Half an hour later it was over 25.  Called again, they said they had a computer glitch and would fix it right away, wait 10 minutes.  An hour later it was 26.4.  Called again, and they sent a technician.  He fiddledid with it and said we shold notice a difrench in 15-20 minutes. It was after 11 so we sent bed. It dropped to a freezing get 25.4 by 6:30 in the morning.  Ever have one of those days?  We weren't happy campers our first day I Turkey.

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