Blonde and Blonder

Ok so what started out as a great day, turned into quite the adventure!!

We arrived back to Istanbul on the over night bus early and in quite comfort, I actually had to be woken up!  So, we set up a shuttle to take us to the airport, relaxed in the morning and decided to catch the 12pm shuttle for our 4pm flight, what was the difference between sitting in the hotel room and sitting in the airport? and we would be sure not to miss our flight.  When we arrived at the airport, we breezed through security and went to check in.  Marnie pulled out her ticket to double check everything and we were at the WRONG airport.

In Marnie's defence, she had originally booked a flight out of that airport but it didnt give her enough time to get back from the overnight bus and to in airport for an international flight.

Oops! so now it was out to catch a cab (already over an hour in the wrong direction)  to our actual airport to take an hour flight that led us to a city we just left and then catch our flight to Basal Airport.  Basel airport is interesting, you can get to Germany, France, or Switzerland depending on the exit you take out.  Marnie had been telling me that our hotel was in Switzerland for days, bet we decided (just bc of our lucky day we were having to double check)  It was actually in France.  We had difficulties trying to actually locate it and the sun was setting quickly.  PLUS we had a 6am flight to catch the next day.

We finally made it there and set up transportation, and a wakeup call for the morning.  The first free shuttle out did not leave until 430, but you're supposed to be there 2 hours before for international.  The man at the desk said we'd be fine with the shuttle, but we decided not to risk it.  (We would have been fine with the shuttle)

Good news is, all of our flights were made, and we got to Croatia with everything we needed, and a good story, even if our pockets were a bit lighter.