Day 13-14, Wednesday-Thursday 21-22 May
Another fairly early morning for our last day. Had breakfast then out the door at 7am.
Our Cappadocia driver Muammer with our tour guide Selim Akin
I got a window seat for our flight back to Istanbul. Our group took up the whole last three rows of the plane.
Turkish Airlines 737-800 TC-JGB at Nevsehir Airport
NevÅŸehir Kapadokya Airport
Colourful landscape in Turkey
Kizilirmak Reservoir
Hirfanlı Dam
Wingtip of our Turkish Airlines plane
Waterfront shops and aquarium on approach to Istanbul Atatürk Airport
At Istanbul we had a little time to wait before we could check into our next flight. After checking in I spent the last of our Lira on some snacks to keep us going until our next meal on the plane.
Engine of our Etihad Airbus A330 A6-AFE at Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Etihad Airbus A330 A6-AFE at Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Runway 35R at Istanbul Atatürk Airport
View east towards Istanbul
View over Istanbul suburbs
View down the Golden Horn to the Bosphorus
I watched The Lego Movie on the plane, because Everything Is Awesome!
View over southern Abu Dhabi on approach to Abu Dhabi airport
There was a yukky long line to get through security between flights in Abu Dhabi, so we ended up with not to long to wait for the last flight.
On the plane we were seated next to an Irish guy who was living in Sydney, and he was playing 4096 (5x5!!) on his iPad. But the plane was only half full, so everyone rearranged themselves to make use of the available space. So mum and I got the three seats to ourselves which was nice.
Willies Creek estuary north of Broome
Clouds over the red centre of Western Australia
Rocky ranges southeast of Alice Springs
Rocky ranges southeast of Alice Springs
I watched About Time at the beginning of the flight over dinner. Quite a sweet movie, I enjoyed it. Then dozed for quite a while. Later on I watched Rio which was a bit silly but not too bad.  I liked the detail they put into the parrot movement - it looked very realistic in places.  And then I watched Shakespeare in Love but missed the very end because we were landing.
The e-passport machine didn't work for some reason, so had a short wait to get through passport control. But a girl from customs came through while we were in line, so getting through customs was a breeze after we got our bags.
Me at the international terminal train station at the end of trip home
Photo by Mum
Took the train back to mum's. I was actually feeling ok (it was about 1pm Turkey time) so I decided to drive home that night so I could see my sweetie. I was pretty tired around Lake George but made it home safely just before midnight (35 hours after leaving the hotel in Turkey).
So all in all a great trip. Saw lots of cool stuff and took 7756 photos! (mum took 1388).
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