Flights to Istanbul

We flew out of Palmy early afternoon ( Wed 25th May / thanks R+J for the ride ), then with an early evening Emirates nightime flight out of Auckland via Melbourne to Dubai meant we both managed to catch some sleep - the food was the best in-flight food we've had / 140 movies to choose from helped when not sleeping + I generally had no problems finding somewhere to tuck the long limbs
After an 8 hour Transit lounge wait ( mostly reading + trying to sleep in an unbelievably huge Terminal ) it was a relatively short 4 1/2 hour flight to Istanbul - had some great views of the Gulf, Iraq + Turkey / got to the Hotel around 8pm ( almost 40hrs after leaving Palmy ) - basically we went straight to bed and had the best sleep in a long while.

R