Saturday 21st February was our final day in Istanbul so we retraced our steps from the previous day to head from Europe to Asia. Also as an aside, with our weekend in Marrakech earlier in February, Tiger had been to three continents in just one month - not bad going! First of all we walked to Eminönü, grabbing corn on the cob to eat on the way, then had our lunch (once again!) in McDonalds and then took the Kadıköy ferry over to the Asian side. The ferry was a super quick 20

Waking up once more in Istanbul on Friday 20th February, we had a relaxing lie in and then did a walk around through the Gulhane Park and onwards to Eminönü (the European side of Istanbul), which is where the ferries depart to Kadıköy (the Asian side of Istanbul). We ate lunch at McDonalds at Sirkeci as this seemed like the simplest solution for Tiger, before wandering back to the hotel to get ready for our sunset photoshoot! We had booked for one hour 5-6pm on Airbnb Experie

After our one night in the Venus Suite Hotel in Pamukkale, on Thursday 19th February, we were picked up at 6am (in the dark but at least it wasn't 5am!) for our much anticipated hot air balloon flight after recently spectacularly failing in Marrakech and Cappadocia due to poor weather! Well in the end this was truly the most spectacular experience and was well worth the wait. It was also cheaper in Pamukkale than either Cappadocia or Marrakech, which was an unexpected bonus.

On Tuesday 17th February we woke up in our gorgeous King Suite with Spa Bath (room 303) at the Latona Stone Palace in Cappadocia. This area of Turkey is particularly famous for hot air balloon flights (our hotel had lots of amazing photos on their profile showing the morning balloons!) and, following our birthday trip to Marrakech where we also didn't manage a ballon flight, I'd really been hoping to be able to take a hot air balloon ride here in Cappadocia. Sadly, the weathe