We arrived at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul at 0545 this morning filled with angst as to whether our bags would have successfully made the journey from chaotic Kathmandu with hand written luggage tags, through the busy Bangkok airport, transiting from a Thai airways flight to a Turkish Airlines flight, and to Istanbul. Our fears were soon realised when we arrived at the baggage claim for our flight and after 45min our bags had still not arrived.
We then sat in lost and found for 2h while they searched for our bags and were told they could not find them so have sent a message to Bangkok to look there. As you can imagine we were not looking forward to trying to replace our entire pack contents in Istanbul.
At the 2h mark there was a frantic call to the man who was helping us to say that they had located our bags.... in Istanbul! We were relieved!!
We then had to hope that our airport transfer was now still outside customs waiting for us! And he was - thankfully!
The rest of the day went well, a short exploration of the local area visiting the Grand Bazaar, the Egyptian spice market, a rest, and a long hot shower, we were feeling well. Well, that is, until around 7pm, when Jack started feeling a little off colour! We went to our tour introduction meeting and by the time that finished Jack wasn’t feeling very well so we headed up stairs for an early night. Jack then evacuated his entire stomach contents from both ends through the night.
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