Saturday we returned to the airport for a scheduled 4 PM flight. Guess what happened about 45 minutes before that. Crew was there, plane was there and cleaned, but maintenance found that there was a fuel leak….sooooo…we were told to move from Gate E30 to Gate E7 and now the flight will leave at 7. We were all just crossing our fingers. The nice thing about the airport time was we got to meet some of the people on our tour and struck up a friendship with a man and woman celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. So nice to find a connection like that in the midst of chaos.
The good news is that we did take off a little after 7. We had hoped to get to Lake Como in time to join the group for a boat ride on the lake and a visit to the quaint town of Bellagio….which was leaving at noon. We were scheduled to arrive at the airport at 9:45. We hoped for quick passage through the airport, but ours was an unscheduled arrival and so it took awhile for passport control staff to get going to process all 230 or so folks. Also, could we arrive at a regular gate and get off the plane….no…..we had to do it in a part of the airport where we had to walk down the steps of the plane, like in the old days…and get on buses to get us to Passport Control.
I guess the important part is we arrived in Italy, found the driver who was transferring us to Lake Como about 50 minutes away. We learned that they were waiting for us to go on the tour. So, four hours of sleep over 48 hours of travel, no time to change clothes, we joined the group to get on the boat.
Photos tomorrow. Time for sleep now.
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