After 20ish hours of travel, I've finally arrived in Istanbul. The trip wasn't exactly what I was expecting/hoping for. I nearly missed my first plane, and my second plane was so late that I did miss my third. Because of storms in England, my itinerary got all switched around and I ended up going through CDG in Paris instead of Heathrow. Everything ended up alright though; even my baggage made it to Ataturk without incident. The flight from Paris to Istanbul wasn't as cool as I was hoping it would be. It was so foggy and cloudy that I couldn't really see any of Europe as we were flying over the continent, except I'm pretty sure we flew over the Alps. I'm not positive, but we definitely passed over a huge mountain range somewhere in Europe.
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