Istanbul. Day 3
When last we left off, we were sitting in Changi Airport. Well, that went on for quite some time. By the time the flight boarded, some time after 1am, we were exhausted and overfed - as it's easy to eat when you're bored. The upside of eating all evening was that once the flight took off we could go to sleep and not wait around to be fed. The downside was that it was a new seating arrangement. Technically a lie-flat bed, but you don't recline it until it's flat. No, you put it upright and then a flight attendant, who knows what they're doing, folds the seat back down - and there's a thin mattress on the back, and a separate seatbelt! All that was actually pretty good. The problem is captured in the photo below. In this flat bed, the room for your legs is the small area below and to the left of the screen. Quite a narrow hole, and off-centre. So it doesn't really work, and every time I rolled over I'd wake up and fidget around trying to get into some com...