Turkey, Day 12.1

Breakfasted then packed our bags. We deposited them in the luggage store then caught the bus into town again. We walked down to the harbour. The plan was to have a boat trip to kill some time. We'd seen one the other day, 1 hour for €5.00 each, TL70 at their exchange rate. Catherine had it in her mind to barter with them and so she did, in German no less! Result was, we got our hour for TL50! Impressive.

The trip was only around both bays either side of the harbour and not quite the full hour but still mist enjoyable. We were the only Brits on it, the rest being Germans. We had a chat with one of the boat guys, as it turned out he used to live in Victoria back in the 80s. 

Catherine with Temple of Athena in the background

After the boat, we made our way to have some lunch, our 3rd pizza of the holiday.  From there we went to Subway and bought some 6" subs to have on the plane. Then it was back to the hotel to await our transfer coach. Due at 16:50, it arrived 16:30. Luckily we were already in the foyer, reading, so eere able to grab our cases and jump on board. I think there were due to be some others but they never showed.

When we arrived at the airport, the board said we would be delayed by 50 mins. First thing we had to do through the doors was load all our bags on a scanner conveyor. Next check them in. Then on to boarding pass check, then passport control. From there we had to put out hand bags through another scanner!

Once through, we went to the gate and made ourselves comfortable, until that was, we eere fenced in, then told to queue up outside, to be patted down and have our bags searched. What the feck?

I got the full treatment but Catherine was lucky and was waved through. As they had rubber gloves on I wondered if they wanted to do a rectal search but luckily it was just my bag they wanted to rummage around in.

We left Antalya just after 10pm. Captain reckons he'll make up time (don't they always?), so we should only be about 20 minutes late.  We'll see.