Georgia day 1

On day 1 Friday 13th I was kindly picked up by Rob H. at the house and he drove down to Stansted where we had "Meet and Greet" parking, parking close to the airport this was really convenient and highly recommended! Meeting Oli for the first time and seeing Johnny P. again I had feeling this was going to be a really good trip. Check in was straight forward and we went through passport control OK and all the scans and checks and were called onto the Pegasus Flight an Airbus A300, we had initially got seated when we were asked if we could move to the extra we had a 3 hour and 40 minute flight to Istanbul airport landing on a new runway, so there was about 20 minute taxing until the plane stopped. Getting off the plane and especially in the airport felt like high summer, very crowded and hot and stuffy (no air conditioning) I couldn't wait to catch the next flight to Iblisi, georgia. Before that we had a Burger King Meal which we needed. Then we took the 2nd 2 hour flight to Tiblisi. Passport control was interesting at Tiblisi with a stony faced operative (even oblivious to the charm of Rob H!) barking orders at you, "take your glasses off!", "step back and face the camera" having survived that ordeal (all 4 of us had the same treatment) we were meant outside the airport building by a friendlier (not difficult) car hire represntative. He walked us to the car and kindly wheeled my luggage bag for me.