We had a cab pick us up from my brothers house at 9:00am, to take us to London Stanstead for a midday flight. We normally fly from LHR, but the flight times were either leaving too early, or arriving too late. Our flight was landing at 10pm local time (+3hrs GMT). Those of you who know me well won’t be surprised to know that we were the very last ones to board 😊 the Turkish Airlines flight itself, but after that initial embarrassment and then having to reclaim our seats, the circa 4hr flight was pretty painless. But arriving in Istanbul a little later than scheduled, there was another mad dash to get through security, to make our onward connection to Antalya, finally we landed just after 10pm and were kindly met by our host “Naci” to take us to the place that we’d be staying for the next month. We arrived in Kaleici, located in the old town, at about 11pm. We decided against going out to get something to eat, instead opting to turn in….exhausted! After a late breakfast the following morning and gathering a few things from a small supermarket close by, I decided to go for a walk-about before the expected rain later in the day. It’s been a good few years since we were last in Turkey, but the place and people are still as interesting and charming.
Dream Chasers 