On the Sunny Side Up

Day 1: Fly from London to Turkey. The flight over the pond is easy and painless - 4 hours from London to Istanbul, a short change over and then 1 hour to Izmir Adnan Menderes airpot. Honestly, the time spent waiting to board then waiting on the runway takes longer than the actual flight. 2:30 am and we get off at Izmir and start feeling the excitement - our feet are on Turkish soil, and they want to dance a dervish whirl. Pick up the car and drive to Bergama, our final destination. Bearing in mind that we have arrived at 2:30 in the morning, and pre-booked a car, the process should be over in 5 minutes. However. First we can't find the booking office. So we ask a helpful but slightly suspicious airport security officer. He looks at the address on the email and then regretfully but kndly informs us that to pick up our booked car we would have to travel 400km back in the direction we came...which to be honest is not ideal. Our options are either a bus service to central Izmir...