Friday, 21 September 2007

From Spain to Belfast

I left Spain on September 10 and that day was verrrry long. All my family got up at 6:00 am (CEST) and it was raining. Hopefully, Carlos took us to the airport in his car.

The plan was very simple. Fist of all, I should take a flight from Madrid to London and then another one from Londo to Belfast at 13:50 (local time). It looks a big amount of time between flights but you should notice that I made a bus trip from Gatwick airport to Heathrow -- 80 mins.

Finally, I lost the second flight! But a lot of things happened:
  • We boarded almost 2 hours late.
  • We waited 10 mins for two guys which names was anounced by the crew. WTF they tell us that?
  • The plain spent half an hour taxiing. Maybe we took of on the T4 and we started on the T1.
  • Half an hour waiting on the runaway. Maybe waiting for the control tower or maybe the pilot was looking for a contact lens on the floor of the cabin.
Only ten minutes before and I had take my flight.

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Waiting the second flight.

Then I tried to get another flight to Belfast for free and it almost worked! But the guy of the air company finally realized that I had that right and I bought another ticket -- 180 quids!!



Another annoying situation occurred when I was waiting for the second (third) flight and I called to the international office in order to say my new arrival time. I was talking with a girl and I was understanding all that she said. When I said that I am from Madrid she ansered: "¡Coño! Eré de Madrí!" with a strong southern Spanish accent.

The rest of the things were OK. The wellcome team managed to get me to my bed.

First post

Hi!

This is my first post and it has two main purposes.
  • Testing of the blog.
  • Greeting: hola, hello, moro, what's the craic? and so on.
I will try to write all the posts in English, but all of you know my English skills ;)