We arrived in Sabiha Gokcen
airport in Istanbul just after 8:15PM and had a departure from Istanbul airport at 1:15AM the next day. My research on
transfers between the two airports had revealed that there was a bus to central
Istanbul connecting to another bus to Istanbul airport and that the total
journey time should be in the region of 3 hours or you could take a taxi for
about EUR80 and it would take about 90 minutes. I opted for what was
to be one of the most terrifying taxi journeys of my life. The driver did not
speak English and I think my enquiry about “how long would it take” was
mistaken for “I am in a rush”, we left the airport at 160KMH and when we hit
solid traffic in all the lanes he made the concession of slowing to
100KMH whilst driving on the hard shoulder, there was seldom more than a car
length gap between us and the car in front, often less. At one point we
flashed the traffic police out of the way as they were not going fast enough
for the driver, 55 minutes later we arrived at Istanbul airport. it took a couple of drinks in the lounge to calm my nerves
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