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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 City Thousands Of Miles From Home Without Baggage And A Place To Remain.
The travel fiasco commenced with the sound of Christmas music in the midst of the summer holiday season at Will Rogers World Airfield.
Prior to it being over, plane delays would cause my daughter Elena and I to miss a cruise ship and be stranded in a foreign town thousands of miles from home without luggage and a place to remain.
Just before eight a.m. On that Fri. in June, we had arrived at the Oklahoma Town airfield with masses of time before our 10:10 a.m. Flight to Atlanta. We were scheduled to arrive just after noon 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 following day to Venice.
We wondered aloud what we might do with all of the additional time before we wished to catch a Royal Caribbean cruise for an exotic journey 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 Varsity in St. Louis, but it had been canceled due to the political disturbance 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 itinerary in the Adriatic. It's a opportunity to take Elena on the promised trip.
We investigated the trip and its 5 towns. We were told about the region's history by relatives who had been there. We were excited about visiting and exploring historical destinations for the first time.
Marooned in Oklahoma City
With only half an hour left before our flight, we expected the intercom statement to board the aeroplane. Instead we heard that all security checkpoints had been closed, and those passengers who had been cleared must evacuate to the west side of the airport.
Being a journalist, I naturally started posing questions.
I talked with one or two of the 2,500 passengers who were stranded that day, all with different stories of travel plans that'd be delayed. There were stories of a lady bowler going to a nationwide championship, a pa taking his boys to Key West, Fla, to go scuba swimming, a girl flying into Oklahoma Town for an audition that she would miss, and a Nigerian businessman in this country for a show. Most voiced concern about my travel plans and wished us the best on getting to Italy on time . No problem, I announced ; 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 scare ended in early afternoon when police found the suspicious package contained a bullhorn playing Christmas music, a phone, batteries and wires. But as the hours passed, the optimism faded. We eventually left more than 6 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 global terminal to see if an 8:30 p.m. Flight to Venice was available. A cranky clerk battered furiously on her keyboard and told us the 8:30 flight was not available. However , 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 half an hour, griping as she thought we hadn't informed her about our two checked bags. We guaranteed her we had, and she commenced pecking furiously on the keyboard again before informing us our bags would arrive in Venice punctually.
We ultimately received our boarding passes and made it to the gate just before the doors closed for the Paris flight. As the aeroplane departed, I was elated that everything was going to work out.
Then the airplane got delayed nearly 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 hadn't been given a boarding pass in Atlanta. (Later on we were told that clerks cannot give boarding passes on flights lasting more than six hours.) After running to the ticket counter, we were informed the gates to the Venice flight were closed.
We thought about our options : Book the next flight to Venice and miss the ship's departure by about 30 mins or find a flight to the ship's first stop in Koper. The only problem is that Koper cannot be reached by plane or train, only by personal automobile. So we took the first option.
A Place To Remain, But No Baggage
Country House is the property of Rosa Milevoj and Loris Bernaroinelli. Rosa, from Croatia, speaks eight languages and was formerly a ship worker. Her husband, Loris, is proud that he is mistaken for actor Robert DeNiro but speaks little English. He , however , 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 36 hours in airports, we devoured the normal Italian dinner that evening of pasta, cold meat 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 ' little 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. The majority of the other dinner guests were Italian, with one couple being from Britain.
Also,we thought about trip in some religious place where we are able to 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 luggage. I found Elena's bag in lost luggage although not mine. A clerk then told me that my bag possibly wouldn't arrive during the whole trip due to a baggage system snafu in Paris, even if it had left Atlanta.
As we started to leave, I spotted a girl with long curly hair and wearing a white sun dress blubbering close to the lost luggage window. The baggage snafu had claimed 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 that was entertaining to listen to Rosa's Croatian voice speaking Spanish to a clerk in Italy. Rosa then found an airport luggage clerk who just seemed to be swimming in his Speedo at the bed-and-breakfast's big swimming pool, found near one of Venice's many canals. He soon returned with the final decision : My bag was lost, and we wanted to go to Venice to buy clothes,writes tagza.com.