Istanbul | It’s been a blast - Thank You!

Just got bk,had top time stayed in taksim so had 3 heavy days on piss,come home via paris,an the manchester plane from paris got diverted to newcastle cos of storm was a shocker,but pilot luckily refulled an took us all bk to manni,great experiance seein us win european cup,locals were freindly but deffo gotta keep wits about u but dint see any trouble to be fair,game day stadium was a shambles nothin more expected felt sorry for alot of blues after game it was a complete fuck up especially ones on day trip with no shuttle buses waitin,but yer bin a long few days glad i experianced it,its bin some season glad we finally got over line,thats all that matterd to me everything else was a bonus
 
just back home, those on TK1933 this afternoon from IST to Heathrow we had a few heart in mouth moments with 3 attempts to land. With metro, shuttle buses, taxi's it just about topped off the transport logistics off for me. The M1/M6 for once was a breeze compared to the travel in Istanbul.

Great trip, great stories, great memories.
 
rowarta said:
just back home, those on TK1933 this afternoon from IST to Heathrow we had a few heart in mouth moments with 3 attempts to land. With metro, shuttle buses, taxi's it just about topped off the transport logistics off for me. The M1/M6 for once was a breeze compared to the travel in Istanbul.

Great trip, great stories, great memories.
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Funny story…well I can laugh now.

I made my way to this gate departure (I think it was F5B) only to be told at the gate that this wasn’t my flight as there was another 14:55 flight to Heathrow which of course was located at the other side of the terminal- cue me legging it like Kyle Walker just in time before the dreaded final call.
 
hammersmithlad said:
Funny story…well I can laugh now.

I made my way to this gate departure (I think it was F5B) only to be told at the gate that this wasn’t my flight as there was another 14:55 flight to Heathrow which of course was located at the other side of the terminal- cue me legging it like Kyle Walker just in time before the dreaded final call.
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yep we noticed that as well, two flights to same destination with same airline within 5 min departure! Are you our new left back?

usual gallows humour from city fans on TK1933 as we landed after 3rd attempt "we're going up, we're going down, we're going up, we're going down, we're all going down with a billion in the bank"
 
unreal. i nearly didnt go because of money but i knew the evening i landed id made the right decision. absolute mental 3 days . shambles of a place for the final but we done it . i done it , a lot of you reading this done it , and the boys did it for us.


Im fucked.
 
staffsblue said:
Found the locals to be fantastic. Really friendly and couldn't do enough to help you.
A few scammers around but leave you alone if you politely tell them where to go.
And it seems Istanbul is the city of cats, who just reluctantly let the people live there.
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the houses some people had built for them were amazing!
 
Was a little apprehensive but everyone we experienced were friendly and wished us well before the game and congratulated us afterwards. They may well have done the same for the Inter fans but I felt it was genuine and the Fenerbahce fans in particular seemed to like us
 
Manic 4 days. The locals were generally decent. Admittedly, we didn't see a lot of the place, but of what we did, it was a bit of a shithole, like any other big city. They certainly need to get some street cleaners on the job - just one big ashtray. The matchday was as expected. We knew everything was just too spread out. Getting to the stadium on a packed metro seemed to take forever. Getting back afterwards on the shuttle buses was chaos. The lack of organisation and direction was bizarre. Anyway, going to bed now for a couple of weeks.
 
Still in France after our Favourite carrier Ryanair decided to cancel flight at last minute again and the old fuck you lot routine stepped in again.suppose we’ll get back somehow. :-(
 
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