Made it - finally

Hello! First official update from not-New-Zealand.


It took Peggy and I 43 hours from the front door of Mum's house to the door of our hostel. That included about 24 hours of flight time, 17 hours in airports and a couple hours of travel time. We were tired, sore and a bit smelly but very excited to arrive. Istanbul is such a busy, bustling city with cars and trucks trying to squeeze down narrow winding streets, which are really glorified alleyways. We've spent a fair amount of our first few hours dodging traffic :)


We met a German guy, Stefan, as we signed in and all went for a walk to find a grocery store and tour the water front. A visit to the roof-top social area completed our socialisation for the evening. With exhaustion setting in our brains are functioning well below par, but I did still manage a conversation about the dominance of English as the language of travellers (lucky for Peggy and me.)


Free internet gave us a chance to look at the next few days of our trip - a couple days here in Istanbul and then on to Troy, Gallipoli and Ephesus over the weekend.


So far all happy and healthy (other than side effects of sleep deprivation) and so thrilled to be in Turkey. And no more planes/airports for a whole two weeks!