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Thursday : fine
The alarm went off at the set time of 1:30am, and surprisingly we woke up fine. Yhe last time I saw the time it was 11:37pm. We will see how we feel when we arrive in Lisbon Portugal, and it's only going to be 1:30pm local time.
We met our taxi driver in lobby, we filled the little matchbox car up and then we were off to the airport. There were so many homeless on the drive there too, mostly rickshaw drivers sleeping under their cart.
We had no problems checking in and getting through security, we even got to have some maccas chicken burgers for breakfast. Our only problem was that the plane was delayed by one hour and once on the plane the seats were so cramped and hot. We did get a good breakfast and lunch on the plane, unlike the last flight. We got 'special meals' they even had our names on them. When buying our tickets online, we had to choice a preference of meals. We didn't care, so we chose the bland meal. That became the special meal on the plane, if I get a choice I'll do it again. Our meals looked a lot better than everyone else's.
We arrived in Istanbul Turkey our transit stop 6.5 hrs after takeoff, and it was very fresh outside apparently 14 degrees. We were late to arrive because of the delay at Delhi, so we had less than 30min to get to our next plane. Not even enough time to go to the toot, and thankfully there were no lines through security.
We were the last people on the plane, and it was almost completely empty. But somehow we were seated across the aisle from one another, and surrounded by Chinese and Indians? After take off we finally got to the lavatory and then changed our seats.
We were served another special meal, and we were able to spread out on our new seats. Kim had a nice lay down, I spent most of the time looking out the window at all the Mediterranean islands and blue water. We got to fly across Greece, Italy and Spain, before landing in Lisbon Portugal.
Well we are here! Our first European country! With no LUGGAGE! Our bags are back in Istanbul, according to the Lisbon lost baggage office. We knew that this would happen, 30min obviously wasn't enough time to transfer our luggage. Why didn't they just delay our 2nd plane until it was loaded with our belongings? They delayed our 1st plane back in Delhi, why not this one? We weren't the only people from our plane with missing luggage either. Now they have to spend money chase us and return our bags. The lost baggage office said that our bags will be delivered to us tomorrow, let's hope so. It's crazy we traveled for over 4months in Asia and not a single thing went missing, we get to Turkey and they loose our bags. We even asked two ground personnel at Istanbul about our bags, because we were concerned about the lack of transfer time.
Anyways forget the bags, we are in Portugal and sun is out, and the city was looking good. thankfully the sun was out because I don't have a jumper. It was so easy getting to the hotel, we caught a bus through the city and hopped off at the last stop. Which was at a train station, and then caught the train along past all the beaches to the third last stop. A short walk up the hill and we arrived at the hotel all for €7 and just under and hour.
The hotel was nice it has wifi, balcony with town and water views, the main thing was that there's Hot Water anytime of the day!
We had a short break in the room then hung out in the hotels cafe, using the net until dinner. We went across the road to a restaurant and had some proper spaghetti, red wine, olives and bread. It's good to be on Portugal.
By the time we left the restaurant, we had been up for 25hrs, and we were feeling it. We went back to the hotel got cleaned up and went to bed.
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