July 17, Panic and plane tickets

We woke up to the news that there had been a military coup in Turkey. This sent us into a panicked search to find my mother a new ticket home because she had been planning to travel on Turkish Air making an overnight layover stop in Istanbul. With the polical unrest this would no longer be possible because the flights had been cancelled and Turkish air is currently prohibited from entering US airspace. 

We arranged for a late checkout and had breakfast downstairs while we worked on travel arrangements. With help from my travel savvy sister-in-law Erin we found my mom a new flight that would go directly from Milan to New York where she would catch a plane to Los Angeles.  

That settled, we packed up and headed to the train station to catch the Malpensa Express and check in at our airport hotel which would be shuttling us to thd airport for our  respective flights. 

After the panic of the morning we had a relaxing afternoon reading by the pool before having delicious asparagus risotto for dinner at the hotel restaurant.