Still Istanbul
After a cracking nite at the fire station it was an early rise this morning to litteraly battle our way through the mayhem that is Istanbul traffic.We cued at the embassy of Azerbajan then carried about 3 diffenrent trips up into the shop area to get coppies and pictures etc,paid at the bank for the visas.lots of other teams seemed to be having trouble with the men in the embassy but they took a shine to our niavety and the neclace that Brennan had made me for luck and we ended up joking around with them which was excellent as they were turning people away from 12 o clock and it was now nearly 13.00 and the best part....
...was when he said no leter of invitation was needed and he would give us a month visa for transit.We then had saved about200 pound on not getting the letters.
So happy we left and have to return tommorow to pick them up.It was now rush hour in the city and boy was the traffic heavy but we now drive like the Turks and use the horn regularly go on red signals and dont use the turn signalsall whilst listening to the best Turkish radio station as loud as possible so you cant hear any body yelling at you.
The car over heated in the city about a mile away from the Hotel so we had to stop but the locals found it funny when we started playing the didgerydoo through our snorkel.
Later we strolled through the city then came back and cooked dinner,laundry was done and a rediculouse price was asked so we marched down stairs and got it at 2 3rds of the price(bonus).
We are looking forward to getting on the road again.
