Thursday, February 1

Munchen cont'd

Paul, Graham and I went back to our hostel for happy hour where (of course) they had really really cheap beer. We hung out there for a while then started booking our stuff for Berlin because we were taking a flight there the next day.

We went to bed and got up early the next day to catch our flight. Our flight was at 8:25am. I'm not sure if any of you have checked out my pictures yet but there is a picture of a clock in the airport that says 8:30am. We missed our flight. We got to the airport about 10 mins before the flight was scheduled to leave and they wouldnt let us check in. The only reason (well, there were two reasons) why we didnt get on our flight was because 1) we had drank too much the night before and didnt allow ourselves enough time in the morning- we had both agreed that an hour and a half is tons of time to get up, get ready, take the metro 45mins, check in and get on our flight. Turns out in wasnt and 2) we were in the metro station trying to get on our metro that only left every 20mins and the doors wouldnt open. had of we made that metro, we would have been able to go to Berlin.

So, after we missed our flight we were trying to decide what to do. There was a germanwings counter (we were supposed to fly with germanwings) near by and so we went there. The man told us that we could just switch our flight to a later one that day. Great. That sounds easy and promising. Oh no. of course not. Because it was so close to Christmas, all the flights going from Munchen to Berlin (there were 4) that day were full. Oh, and all the flights going the next day were also full. Great. Thanks. So, we took the metro back to the hostel and decided what to do. We booked an overnight train back to Paris leaving that night and so it ended up that we had another day in Munchen (which was alright considering we both really liked Munchen) so we walked around, saw some more sights, ate out (kabob..) and then got to the train station in PLENTLY of time for our overnight train.

ridiculous.

a bientot

1 comment:

shann said...

Mandy,

Sounds like you and Paul had a ball... What an experience to have together!

Kenya was great but way to short...

Keep on writing I love reading of your adventures!
Shannon