My Epic Adventure

Day one: *Disclaimer* I in no way fault Israel and their tough stance on security (just to let everyone know before I start!) I woke up at 4am for my flight. It left at 8.40am, however, Israeli security at the airports is much worse when you leave. So you get a security rating from 1-6 before you even check in (this is from google searches so I could be wrong). I was asked how to pronounce my name, why I was in the country, if I had packed my bag and if I had studied the Hebrew alphabet. Apparently this deemed me at L5 - she told me she was worried I might be carrying a bomb for someone!?!?! (A) how did she come to this conclusion and B) I’m hoping it was her bad English). I start freaking out and become quite stressed when taking my rucksack to oversized baggage as about 3-4 people start looking at it. This makes sense when I get it back in London. Anyway next to security when I’m escorted to another line. Some stern people swab almost everything in my bag twice. Then I’m simply left ...

Day one: I had to wake up early for my flight. It didn’t help that it took me a long time to fall asleep so ended up with getting maybe 3-4 hours sleep. I got to the airport quite early even though I had checked in online. I thought I had done something wrong as for some reason it would not give me a boarding pass for the first plane. Not sure what the issue was but I was given both when I got there. I was feeling awful because of my cold but managed to get some sleep on the plane. I was impressed with Turkish airlines because although the flight was around three hours we were given breakfast and there was tv to watch movies. Yes I hate plane food but I guess you can’t screw up a sandwich. Getting to Istanbul the airport is huge. It said my gate was 225 so after walking for 20 minutes it said it changed to 201 so another long walk back. We were then checked for what I think were drugs? Baby Groot even got swabbed! It was at this stage that we had to change gates again to 205, not a lon...