Had a bit of a slow morning ate the wide range of bread breakfast again at the hotel and went for a bit of a look around the street of istanbul. Headed on the Transfer bus to Airport and we were on a mission to get our bags back. Finally they were in our arms the first thing we did was changed our clothes. Best feeling to get out of them jeans. I didn't really want to fly back with Swiss International but got on the plane heading for Frankfurt with 45 min s...

Thursday 24th April & Friday 25th April - ANZAC DAY - Breakfast at the hotel was interesting with about 12 different types of bread on offer. By this stage the jeans i have been wearing from Bangkok were feeling very uncomfortable but still had 2 more days in them. I forgot to mention yesterday the airline (swiss international) gave us a little emergency travel pack that had undies & shirt so at least we has 1 spare pair of undies. On the bus we meet ou...

Wednesday 23rd April - After a very boring 12 hour flight we arrived in Frankfurt Germany. Then 3 hours later we jumped on other plane to Zurich, waited 1.5 hours there and took off for another leg to Turkey. I had major jet lag and felt like i was floating in mid air for about 24 hours. Once landed in Istanbul we hit a big problem. Our luggage both bags didn't come through onto the baggage claim belt. With our anzac tour waiting outside we found lost baggage &...