When I booked the flights from London to Bologna it took about 10 minutes on the Internet. All I had to do was go back to Heathrow airport, fly to Amsterdam, connect to Bologna and then catch a taxi to Elisa's. Too easy.
After first catching the wrong bus to the wrong terminal, I had to catch 2 trains to get to the right terminal. Heathrow is the busiest airport in the world apparently and has over 65 million passengers a year, hence why the airport has it's own train service.
Things started going okay from then, the flight from London to Amsterdam was a joke, it takes me longer to drive from Seaford to Goolwa and there was barely time for the hostesses to offer drinks. Amsterdam to Bologna was a little longer, a little over 1.5 hours but flying over the Alps was amazing. It's about 30 degrees in the day but they still have snow on the top!
Then the language barrier hit. First of all I needed to go to the toilet on the plane, and as I approached the toilet some lady started speaking Italian flat out and I had no idea what sue said but the gist of it was that somebody had destroyed the toilet and it was blocked. Then I grabbed a taxi and apparently the only English he knew was 'OH MY GOD!' because he kept speaking Italian then when I tried to tell him I only spoke English that's what he was saying. Eventually I managed to communicate to him that I needed to use his phone because I lost Elisa's address and I finally got here at about 11pm. I think were going to Florence today, should be a nice day :) I'll put photos up soon!
haha, the first time you hit the language barrier is so tough! you will pick it up soon - toby was a pro within a week. google translate is the shiz-nit.
ReplyDeleteenjoy italy - it is a great place!