Travel Horror
Yes, my trip back to Hungary was not the smoothest of events. I have needed to cool of for some time before writing this.
Here goes; initial travel plan was pretty good, leave iceland in the moring and arrive at my house in debrecen that evening. What should have been a nice little trip with my friend Joakim.
Well it sure wasn´t, first of all the Iceland Express flight (whose services I will not use in the future) was cancellled or delayed for so long that it became the afternoon flight. Which meant that we missed our connection in Copenhagen.
So then came finding the alternate route back to hungary, I personally was ready to go back to my house and just put off the trip for some days, had good reason to stay longer in Iceland !!!
End up finding a way through London standsted with minnimal financial setback, but it was going to cost a night at the airport. Which at the time didnt sound that bad, I mean we are signed up for a test on Tuesday so we had to get moving.
Sure enough the flight to London is delayed 1 hour, iceland express again, so we arrive at around 8:30. Which meant that we had 13 hours to kill befor our flight to budapest. So we find a restaurant eat and start ordering beers. That star burned out early where alchohol was only serverd to 11:00, so that party was over.
We move to the waiting are, which by the way was packed full of bums that were waiting for morning flights. We try to get comfortable, but those hand rests are welded on so there is no reasonable way to get comfortable.
Helgi gets fed up with the situation and goes to check on a hotel. They wanted 130 pounds for the nite and we were not ready to swing that. Helgi opens his bag pulls out a towel and a scarf and makes himself a bed on the floor. At that point im as comfortable as its going to get. 10 mins later all of Helgis 187 cm rise up and say "I am no homeless hippie bum that sleeps at airports, there has got to be something better than this ..." and he walks off. Then suddenly he returns wiht a smile on his face, saying that he has a solution. At that point im all ears. "we rent a car and sleep in it !" and so we did
We pile our bags into the fiat Uno, lean back the seat, heat it up and sleep for about 5 hours. Upon returning the keys, I say "oh by the way its in the same spot", the first rent a car I have rented without even putting it in gear...
We end up safe and sound in Debrecen, finally, dead tired...
r.mar
Here goes; initial travel plan was pretty good, leave iceland in the moring and arrive at my house in debrecen that evening. What should have been a nice little trip with my friend Joakim.
Well it sure wasn´t, first of all the Iceland Express flight (whose services I will not use in the future) was cancellled or delayed for so long that it became the afternoon flight. Which meant that we missed our connection in Copenhagen.
So then came finding the alternate route back to hungary, I personally was ready to go back to my house and just put off the trip for some days, had good reason to stay longer in Iceland !!!
End up finding a way through London standsted with minnimal financial setback, but it was going to cost a night at the airport. Which at the time didnt sound that bad, I mean we are signed up for a test on Tuesday so we had to get moving.
Sure enough the flight to London is delayed 1 hour, iceland express again, so we arrive at around 8:30. Which meant that we had 13 hours to kill befor our flight to budapest. So we find a restaurant eat and start ordering beers. That star burned out early where alchohol was only serverd to 11:00, so that party was over.
We move to the waiting are, which by the way was packed full of bums that were waiting for morning flights. We try to get comfortable, but those hand rests are welded on so there is no reasonable way to get comfortable.
Helgi gets fed up with the situation and goes to check on a hotel. They wanted 130 pounds for the nite and we were not ready to swing that. Helgi opens his bag pulls out a towel and a scarf and makes himself a bed on the floor. At that point im as comfortable as its going to get. 10 mins later all of Helgis 187 cm rise up and say "I am no homeless hippie bum that sleeps at airports, there has got to be something better than this ..." and he walks off. Then suddenly he returns wiht a smile on his face, saying that he has a solution. At that point im all ears. "we rent a car and sleep in it !" and so we did
We pile our bags into the fiat Uno, lean back the seat, heat it up and sleep for about 5 hours. Upon returning the keys, I say "oh by the way its in the same spot", the first rent a car I have rented without even putting it in gear...
We end up safe and sound in Debrecen, finally, dead tired...
r.mar
posted by robert mar at 23:04
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