En Route

Hi Everyone,

Here is entry number 2 for you.

The check in to my flight was easy as can be. One of my concerns was the weight of my bag since many of the Budget airlines have lower weight restrictions. I wanted to make sure my bag was under 15 kilo but when I was packing I had no scale. Success! my bag weighed in at about 12.5 kilo and is only about 75% full. This means lots of room for shopping- if I can only find things that I like :) I also got to have a very quick dinner with Josh in the airport which was lovely as I hadn't seen him since last summer. No doubt I'll see him this summer when I'm in Van though.

Currently I am in the London Gatwick Airport. The flight over was rather pleasantly uneventful as I slept through most of it. Ryan and Dan however stayed up all night watching the movies. After we cleared customs and got our baggage, we found the spot they need to catch teh bus to Coventry to meet us with Jess. Pleanty of time to spare which is excellent news for me and Katherine in a couple weeks. I think, as long as her flight is reasonably on time, we should have no problem making our flight to Athens, if its not cancelled (more on that later). I must say, now that I am a lot bigger than when I was a kid, it is considerably less easy to find a comfortable position. I remember when I use to sleep on the floor of the airplane at my parents' feet or sitting on the floor with my head on the seat- no longer possible.

London is how I remember. In about 2 hours I fly to Gerona which is about an hour and 15 mins outside of Barcelona. From there I will catch a bus to Barceolna's city centre and then the metro to my hostel. I plan to check in for the night, find some dinner and decide what I want to see tomorrow. All very exciting really.

I am flying RyanAir, one of the budget airlines. Apparently in the last day and a half or so the wind patterns have shifted and volcanic ash is being blown south again so all flights to Dublin have been cancelled. This is problematic for some as you can imagine, but being on a budget airline during this kind of thing is even worse. We get what we pay for right? RyanAir has not actual staff present at the airport- they contract out another company to do their baggae check. So needless to say, there are some very unhappy people here and several how have been sleeping in the airport.

Another thing, which I was unaware of in Canada, is that from what I can gather, the airport workers in Greece are on strike. So currently flights to greece are all cancelled and have been so since sometime last week. Who knew! Hopefully that will get cleared up by 2 weeks from now when Katherine and I head to Athens for our vacation. Maybe we should come up with a plan B??

Other than that, things are good. A little groggy from the travel. I'm looking forward to a horizontal sleep tonight.

Time is running out on my internet access so I will leave it at that.

Enjoy the sunshine!