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Odyssey to Turkey Maraba... hello from Turkey! On our way from Holland to Turkey, we stopped in Munich to visit my relatives for 2 days, as that is where we were flying out from. As wewere there, there was a cold spell and it snowed, well, rain/snow. Crazy, what is with Europe?  Anyhow, we were to catch our plane at 11:20pm on the 31st, but when we went to check in, they informed us that our flight had already left... at 8pm. They said they had sent us an email with the scheduled change but neither of us received it, nor did the many others that were checking in that evening for the same flight. Luckily, we were put on another flight the next morning. Problem was that I had booked an airport pickup from Izmir to Alacati, where our competition is, which is about 80 kms away. I tried to inform the people that were coming to get us know about our flight delay, but this was already at midnight and we were supposed to be landing in Izmir at 2:50am. No luck. This day was just going to get longer if we did not get an airport transfer. Lucky us, as we exited the airport, a guy came over to us, obviously the airport pickup guy... He did not know about our delay. He had been waiting there for us all night with no sleep till 4pm the next day when we got there. Needless to say, I felt pretty bad. The normal "shuttle" was not available so we were picked upin a truck. Gear in the back and all 4 of us in the front... it was aslow hickory dickory ride. Here at last we are staying at the One Resort Ephesus. The hotel opened the day we got here. The regatta is being held out of this all-inclusive resort. It is hot and it is a windsurfing mecca. Absolutely awesome! First day of racing is on the 10th! Nikola Girke posted by editors at 6/05/2006 09:25:00 PM |
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