Woah, long long day.
Left home on Saturday at noon for the airport to allow plenty of time to check in etc.
As I was checking in the agent said they were looking for volunteers to bump to the next flight two hours later on a charter company. Initially I said yes, usually they give you pretty good deals, etc for bumping; but after doing so and walking away to find a coffee, something wasn't quite sitting right with me about it.
Decided to listen to that little voice and went back through the lineup to check in and take my name off the bump list. My main reason was that it is a charter I was being put on, meaning flying with my knees to me chest for 10 hours, crap food, and extreme baggage limits(gotta squeeze in those extra people to sell them 15$ cheese sandwiches) . Plus my checked bag was 7 kilos overweight due to the equipment I have to take to the office here. I didn't want to pay the much bigger overage charge the charter would ding me with vs the flat fee Lufthansa charged.
It was my first time flying Lufthansa, very good service, very comfy. During mid flight they kept a supply of juices, wine and waters available for you to help yourself to at the galley, plus bin of Toblerone bars. :) What I found rather odd is all the staff would speak to me in German while speaking English to my seatmate (and she had an accent I couldn't quite place - but no matter, she wasn't very friendly, the only time she spoke too me was to get past me to head for the washroom). What was even more amusing is I'd know what the flight attendant was mostly saying to me and answer her in English, she'd answer in German and I'd reply in English. go figure... I must still have some understanding of it from when I was youngun and could speak it conversationally.
By the time I arrived in Gdansk it was close to 9pm, our flight was delayed leaving Frankfurt due to a huge thunderstorm moving in on the airport. We saw some pretty impressive lighting strikes not far from the tower. Apparently they closed down all but one runway, so it meant close to an hour delay on the tarmac.
LOT is a nice airline too, good service on-board, even for a two hour flight. Drinks, snacks and friendly staff.
Overall a good trip here, only glitch was my hotel room. It was booked locally for me and they took my departure date from Vancouver to mean I'd be here the same day, when I lost a day on the way. Sadly I didn't catch that when I saw the reservation, and when I tried to check in they had nothing on me. They'd canceled my reservation and all their rooms are now full for next weekend. I'm only booked here until the 14th now. I'll have to ask someone at the company to sort this out for me today.
Anyhow, gotta get my butt to work. Hopefully I'll get some pictures today, I didn't get any yesterday(was way too tired by the time I arrived, 31 hours awake will do that to you).
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