Prior To It Being Over, Plane Delays Would Cause My Daughter Elena And I To Miss A Cruise Ship And Be Stuck In A Foreign Town Thousands Of Miles From Home Without Baggage And A Place To Stay.
The travel fiasco commenced with the sound of Xmas music in the middle of the summer vacation season at Will Rogers World Airfield.
Before it was over, plane delays would cause my girl Elena and I to miss a ship and be marooned in a foreign town thousands of miles from home without luggage and a place to remain.
Just before eight a.m. On that Friday in June, we had turned up at the Oklahoma City airfield with masses of time before our 10:10 a.m. Flight to Atlanta. We were booked to arrive just after midday in Atlanta with a long layover before boarding an international flight that would take us, with a six-hour time difference, by 9:45 a.m. The next day to Venice.
We puzzled out loud what we would do with all of the extra time before we wanted to catch a Royal Caribbean cruise for an unusual adventure on the Adriatic Sea and to towns like Koper, Slovenia ; Ravenna, Italy ; and Dubrovnik, Croatia. We were originally meant to go to Egypt to celebrate Elena's graduation from Washington School in St. Louis, but it had been canceled due to the political unrest there. We had thought about other trips, but logistics had prevented those. Then Royal Caribbean offered a special trip on its 2nd week of a new check-list in the Adriatic. It was a opportunity to take Elena on the promised trip.
We researched the trip and its five towns. We were told about the region's history by relatives who had been there. We were thrilled about visiting and exploring important destinations for the 1st time.
Stranded in Oklahoma City
With only thirty mins left before our flight, we predicted the intercom announcement to board the airplane. Instead we heard that all security checkpoints had been closed, and those passengers who had been cleared must abandon to the west side of the airport.
Being a journalist, I naturally started raising questions.
I talked with a few of the 2,500 passengers who were stuck that day, all with different stories of travel plans that would be delayed. There were stories of a girl bowler going to a nationwide championship, a father taking his boys to Key West, Fla, to go scuba swimming, a girl flying into Oklahoma City for an audition that she would miss, and a Nigerian businessperson in this country for a presentation. Most voiced concern about my travel plans and wished us the best on getting to Italy in good time. No problem, I declared ; we had plenty of time to reach Atlanta for the 6:30 p.m. Overnight flight to Venice.
I was still confident even after the bomb shock ended in early afternoon when police found the suspicious package contained a bullhorn playing Xmas music, a phone, batteries and wires. But as the hours passed, the anticipation faded. We eventually left more than six hours later on the same plane to Atlanta that was supposed to leave at 10:10 a.m.
Missing Flight After Flight and Our Boat
Our Atlanta flight arrived just as our original Venice flight was taking off, so we rushed to the world terminal to determine whether an 8:30 p.m. Flight to Venice was available. A cranky clerk pounded wildly on her keyboard and told us the 8:30 flight was unavailable. Nevertheless she found an overnight flight that attached to Venice through Paris, which gave us lots of time to get to the ship before it launched. The clerk continued to pound at her keyboard for another 30 minutes, griping because she thought we hadn't informed her about our 2 checked bags. We assured her we had, and she commenced pecking wildly on the keyboard again before enlightening us our bags would arrive in Venice punctually.
We finally received our boarding passes and made it to the gate just before the doors closed for the Paris flight. As the plane departed, I was ecstatic that everything was going to work out.
Then the aeroplane got delayed almost 30 mins before landing in Paris. We rushed to get to the Venice connection, only to be informed at the security checkpoint that we must return to the ticket counter because we had not been handed a boarding pass in Atlanta. (Later , we were told that clerks cannot give boarding passes on flights lasting more than 6 hours.) After running to the ticket counter, we were said to the gates to the Venice flight were closed.
We considered our options : Book the subsequent flight to Venice and miss the ship's exit by about 30 minutes or find a flight to the ship's first stop in Koper. The only problem is that Koper can't be reached by plane or train, only by personal automobile. So we took the first option.
A Place To Remain, But No Bags
Country House is the property of Rosa Milevoj and Loris Bernaroinelli. Rosa, from Croatia, speaks eight languages and was previously a ship employee. Her husband, Loris, is proud that he's mistaken for actor Robert DeNiro but speaks tiny English. He nonetheless , loves the sounds of Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and other American singers and will dance or sing loudly to the music.
After more than thirty six hours in airports, we devoured the normal Italian dinner that evening of pasta, cold meats and cheeses, bread and salad, with the red wine that Loris and the Country House graciously served. The dinner guests eat just outside of the villa where the owners ' small dogs ramble the estate and stare at the diners, in hope of a handout or for food to fall from the table. The estate smelled of lilac flowers as the birds chirped softly in the background till Loris decided to start singing again. Most of the other dinner guests were Italian, with one couple being from Britain.
Also,we thought about trip in some religious place where we can find peace and beautiful nature like as Medjugorje in Bosnia, where we will be able to find anytime some good Medjugorje accommodations.
We returned to the Venice airport the following morning to retrieve our bag. I found Elena's bag in lost luggage though not mine. A clerk then let me know that my bag likely would not arrive in the complete trip as a result of a luggage system snafu in Paris, even if it had left Atlanta.
As we started to leave, I spotted a girl with long kinky hair and wearing a white sun dress crying close to the lost luggage window. The luggage snafu said another victim.
Inside a few minutes, we returned to the same Air France clerk, who booked us again at the Country House for one more night. Rosa volunteered to call the airfield to whine about my bag, and it was entertaining to listen to Rosa's Croatian voice speaking Spanish to a clerk in Italy. Rosa then found an airport baggage clerk who just had occasion to be swimming in his Speedo at the bed-and-breakfast's big swimming pool, located near one of Venice's many canals. He soon returned with the final decision : My bag was lost, and we needed to go to Venice to buy clothes,writes tagza.com.
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