Day1: 20th March My husband and I set out for our 3rd official international trip. Intention of this trip being our 2nd wedding anniversary celebration. We catch an 8.25 am Turkish airline flight to Istanbul. Breakfast at one of the lounges at the airport as well as a late one on the flight. We get out of the airport sometime after 12 and head to the taxi stand (taksi is what they call it). Its clearly been raining heavily and a taksi drenched in rain water arrives for us. Not to forget mentioning that the temperature was around 5 degree celsius with feels like temperature of 2 degree celsius. We show him our hotel address and he clearly cannot speak english. Thankfully he does know the area. The hotel we stayed at in Istanbul was Hotellino.
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