Disaster Day!! All good this am…everything in place, close up the apartment, all anticipation heading off to Istanbul. Taxi booked, got to the airport in oodles of time…too much time to burn! Sat around, had a bite to eat and a glass of wine, watching the board for gate information.
Gate information goes up and we head off feeling very relaxed…only to find that there was a Turkish Airlines flight leaving a bit later and for some inexplicable reason we were watching that flight instead of the Pegasus flight we were booked on. We tried to bolt for that flight but it was too late and for the first time in my life I had missed a flight.
You cannot imagine how stressful that is. It was more than stressful, it was awful!!! Very tense all round as neither of us could understand how we’d done it!! They had taken our luggage off the flight so we picked that up and had no choice but to head back home and try to work out what to do next.
What to do next was a business in itself. I can tell you that missing a flight is a very expensive business. We have had to weigh up our options which included sucking it up and getting on a very expensive flight tomorrow; ditching the whole idea and staying in Italy; going in a day or so when the prices settled back down but severely curtailing our time in Istanbul; going to Trieste early and going to Turkey at the other end of the holiday which would have meant reorganisation of multiple variables and the inevitable loss of money in the process. There was much discussion and disagreement but we have finally decided to go tomorrow. The way I see it…. its like getting robbed, you have to just move on…although thats very hard…I’m still smarting from those girls taking all my money out of my purse at Montmartre!!!!
So we go tomorrow morning and life will continue. We will try to relax tonight and head off in the morning. We had a big discussion about buying wine in Istanbul and realised we hadn’t bought a corkscrew which is still an essential in this part of the world, no screw caps here!!…so if there is a silver lining it is that we can now pack the corkscrew!!!
So now rebooking taxi’s, rearranging hotel booking, rearranging airport pick-ups at both ends. Exhausting!! a bite to eat and we’ll both be ready to hit the hay.