Hey all! Today, I will be going to London!!! Do you think I am just a little excited? But does something about this with those of you who are keeping track (or remembered), as of 4:20 Tuesday, I was supposed to be on my way to the Emerald Isle. But, because I am typing this in the small hours of Wednesday, I am sitting at my family's computer in good ol' Elkhart, Indiana.
Well, it all started when Aer Lingus decided that it wasn't going to pay its Belfast pilots the same as it pays pilots in the rest of Ireland. I guess the Guinness in Northern Ireland must not be as good as the Guinness south of the border. And what happens when you don't pay all pilots in the same airline the same rate?--they go on strike! Starting at 12:01 on Tuesday morning, all Aer Lingus pilots went on strike, forcing the airline to cancel all flights for the rest of the week (pardon me, the airline calls this a "disruption"). I read the email this past Thursday night, and on Friday morning I spent well over an hour listening to the same terrible song about going back home to Ireland, counteracting it the song with "Roam" by the B-52's. Yes, it was a very bad combination. Finally I talked to a guy from Brooklyn (I was so expecting a soft-spoken Irish woman with a melodic Irish accent) who magically changed my $300 Aer Lingus ticket into a $1200 Virgin Atlantic seat--all without kissing a frog or or paying a single penny more! I wouldn't have minded riding Aer Lingus, because I have heard that it is very nice, but Virgin Atlantic (I feel I have to have that last part in there) is luxury airline where they serve passengers real food! It was a little scary for a while, but things always happen for a reason, and I like my current travel plan much better.
So what am I actually doing?
Today, Wednesday August 22: Leave Chicago O'Hare at 6:00 p.m.; arrive at London Heathrow at 8:00 a.m. London time
Thursday August 23: London Gatwick at 2:50 to Bologna, Italy arriving at 6:00 p.m. Stay at Collegio Alma Mater until September 8 when we leave Bologna for Krakow, Poland.
I will post the itinerary and more later. This is the first time I have done a blog, and please keep in mind that I am the person who declared a one-woman boycott of Facebook (although I am becoming slightly more addicted). I know that
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