I'm pleased to report that we have power, lights and hot water this morning so I'm no longer Mr Grumpy.I'm also sad to report though that I have nothing worth mentioning today as I had a 'lazy day' in the hotel catching up with the blog whilst Maria carried on planning the rest of our trip.She did pop out to buy supplies for our carpet picnic in the evening and came back looking very pleased with herself for buying me yoghurt, olive bread and some tasty little ...

I got up at 0630 this morning as we needed to get our visas from the Mongolian Embassy, which is the only reason for coming to Ankara in the first place.No hot water!If anyone knows me, then they know that I can't abide a cold water shower, so, none to chuffed, I strolled downstairs from the 7th floor to find the same useless chap telling me there was a problem!I was in a temper and let him know it, even calling him stupid, but it all seemed to wash over him, '...

We arrived at the Atlanta Deniz hotel in the Ankara to find that we had no reservation so were put up in a twin room instead of a double with a promise that we'd change rooms tomorrow.No problem.All was going well until about 2200 when, just like that, the light and power went off.b*****!At this point, the hotel receptionist, who could only say 'problem, problem' (no s*** Sherlock) really p***ed us off by putting the phone down on me twice and laughing at Maria...