Destination Turkey
When I asked R if he would be around so that I could visit him in Frankfurt, he told me that he was leaving his job which provided us a chance to travel somewhere together. We decided to go to Istanbul as neither of us had been to Turkey, and we felt that it was a good place to travel with someone.
So, the adventure begins... we left Frankfurt on a 10 p.m. flight and arrived in Istanbul around 2 a.m. After going through passport control, with a quick diversion to get a Turkish visa (a.k.a. a way to fleece tourists for more money), we found a taxi and headed to the hotel, finally getting into the room around 3:30 a.m. local time. Bleary eyed, we slept our first hours in Turkey.