After a very long train journey (more of this here), we arrived into Erzurum in 04:30 and we were ready to walk to the hotel. It wasn’t as cold as we had expected and we did consider getting a taxi, but there weren’t any.
We decided that Jonathan would lead the taxi search and if that failed, which it did, then I’d navigate us to the hotel.
Apologies that it’s blurry, but I was a little distracted with navigation and wondering if I should contact someone about not having had access to the Internet for 36 hours.
I have an inability to walk on ice, so I lingered behind faffing about whilst calling out the directions to Jonathan, the intrepid explorer.
We approached the hotel and it looked dark inside, which wasn’t surprising given that it was 04:45. Jonathan and I were very pleased to discover that the main door was open and after just thirty seconds, a chirpy and helpful staff member came down to check us in. We did have a back-up hotel option, but it was a considerable relief that we could check into our rooms and try and get some sleep. And I quickly spent an hour on the Internet to calm my nerves.