"EVERYTHING IS FULL"
The woman at the Alitalia servicedesk was not in a good mood. "Everything is full" she told me an hour before the flight was supposed to leave from Mumbai to Milan in Italy. Her answer didn´t include the business class seats on the flight so I tried to convince her to let me sit in those seats so I could go on the flight but no such luck.
It was 1 am and a flight was scheduled for Frankfurt two hours later. We decided to try for that flight but "everyting was full" and a few of us were left behind so me and Anna decided to spend the night in the airport and try for a 7 am flight to Frankfurt. We got seats on the flight, landed in Frankfurt 9 hours later and tried to get a train to Milan to visit our friend Francesca. "Almost everything is full" said the young man in the Deutsche Bahn office. "I thought the pope was going to be buried in Rome" I said jokingly but the young man told me that everything to Rome was full so people were just going to Italy and then they counted on getting from Milan to Rome. Idiots, why don´t you just stay at home and watch it on TV?
Couldn´t the pope have stayed alive a week longer, just for us?
We then went on a 1 hour hike to a youth hostel we knew about. "Everything is full" or "Alles is ausgebuched" said the helpful young man in the heavy metal t-shirt with long hair to us. I don´t remember if he spoke English or German so that must mean that my German is pretty good. We went on another hour journey with our 4 heavy backpacks to Darmstadt which is a little outside Frankfurt. There they had room for us for one night only "because there´s a musik festival in Frankfurt and EVERYTHING IS FULL tomorrow".
Then we checked out prices of trains, rental cars and flights (we even thought about hich hiking) either to Milan or to Berlin/Rostock where we claim to have friends but when the sum was added up, everything was to expencive for us. There was a direct flight the next day (yesterday) from Frankfurt to Reykjavik so we decided to try our luck with that one. "Everything is full?" I asked the check in staff the next day but to my surprice the answer was no. We got on the flight and 3+ hours later we landed in the land of Ice. -6° celcius was reality and snow in beginning of April was our welcoming present from our fatherland.
It´s nice to be back!
Valli
Don´t stop reading quite yet though, we still have to post a few stories that we´ve left out.
It was 1 am and a flight was scheduled for Frankfurt two hours later. We decided to try for that flight but "everyting was full" and a few of us were left behind so me and Anna decided to spend the night in the airport and try for a 7 am flight to Frankfurt. We got seats on the flight, landed in Frankfurt 9 hours later and tried to get a train to Milan to visit our friend Francesca. "Almost everything is full" said the young man in the Deutsche Bahn office. "I thought the pope was going to be buried in Rome" I said jokingly but the young man told me that everything to Rome was full so people were just going to Italy and then they counted on getting from Milan to Rome. Idiots, why don´t you just stay at home and watch it on TV?
Couldn´t the pope have stayed alive a week longer, just for us?
We then went on a 1 hour hike to a youth hostel we knew about. "Everything is full" or "Alles is ausgebuched" said the helpful young man in the heavy metal t-shirt with long hair to us. I don´t remember if he spoke English or German so that must mean that my German is pretty good. We went on another hour journey with our 4 heavy backpacks to Darmstadt which is a little outside Frankfurt. There they had room for us for one night only "because there´s a musik festival in Frankfurt and EVERYTHING IS FULL tomorrow".
Then we checked out prices of trains, rental cars and flights (we even thought about hich hiking) either to Milan or to Berlin/Rostock where we claim to have friends but when the sum was added up, everything was to expencive for us. There was a direct flight the next day (yesterday) from Frankfurt to Reykjavik so we decided to try our luck with that one. "Everything is full?" I asked the check in staff the next day but to my surprice the answer was no. We got on the flight and 3+ hours later we landed in the land of Ice. -6° celcius was reality and snow in beginning of April was our welcoming present from our fatherland.
It´s nice to be back!
Valli
Don´t stop reading quite yet though, we still have to post a few stories that we´ve left out.
posted by Valgeir & Anna at
14:39
6 Comments:
Velkomin heim. Það var farið að sjást að þið voruð orðin þreytt. Ykkur mun samt ábyggilega langa aftur til Indlands eftir nokkra daga hvíld :) Ég hætti ekkert að lesa síðuna enda er þetta búin að vera fyrsta síðan sem ég hef farið inná á morgnanna undanfarna 6 mánuði.
Kveðja, Gunni Magg.
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Nafnlaus, at 9:47 PM
Takk fyrir þetta Gunni. Það var ágætt að koma aftur heim þó að veðráttan sé aðeins öðruvísi.
Svo er stefnt á að hóa saman fyrrverandi og núverandi ferðamálafræði pakki og hittast á kaffihúsi eitthvert fimmtudagskvöldið á næstunni. Ertu ekki maður í það? Ég kem með myndir!
Valgeir
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Valgeir & Anna, at 8:38 AM
Ég er til í að hitta fólkið og spenntur að sjá fleirri myndir. Kannski að ég fari að kíkja þá inn á ferðamálagrúppuna á Yahoo.
Gunni
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Nafnlaus, at 11:28 AM
velkomin heim. það er búið að vera mjög gaman að flygjast með þessari svaðilför frá byrjun til enda.
erna i saumó
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Nafnlaus, at 1:02 PM
Velkomin heim á klakann. Hlakka mikið til að hitta ykkur og fá að heyra allar sögurnar beint í æð.
Kveðja Áslaug
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Nafnlaus, at 4:30 PM
Velkomin heim. Hér sé kuldi og snjór í haga ( og sumardagurinn 1. nálgast). Njótið :)
Berglind
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Nafnlaus, at 6:16 PM
Sendu inn athugasemd
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