Two different worlds, two different weathers! My last blog compared Turkey with other Western countries and how different their cultures are. It can be said the same with their climates.
Yesterday after checking out of our hotel at noon, Trini and I went to eat lunch across from our hotel one last time to eat Turkish food. Although it was sunny the breeze made it much more colder. We ordered café Americano to be on the safe side. The waiter brought us the pita bread on steroids. Entree for both of us was chicken (had enough of lamb and fish).
We left for the airport at 3:00 pm. We passed through several security screening points before we got inside the gate terminal. As it was still early the monitor still did not show what gate we should proceed to for our flight. So we sat in a bar nibbling peanuts and sipping our favorite liquid diets – beer for me and white wine for Trini!
We flew Turkish Airlines again and even though the flight only lasted an hour we were given hot sandwiches and drinks. What a contrast with Norwegian Airlines who didn’t feed us nor gave us water for ten hours! You had to buy everything and the flight attendants couldn’t care less if you died of thirst.
I’m glad that I made arrangements for the hotel to meet us at the airport, we didn’t have to stand in the cold queueing for taxis. I spotted my name right away and the driver took our luggage cart. As soon as we stepped out of the arrival terminal, we felt a freezing swoosh of biting wind hit our faces! Last week, temperatures in Eastern Europe were much more bearable – cold but not snowing! Oh well.
Brrrrrr……
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