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this is to find a new friend because of their own loves volcanoes and now for a volcano responsibility is that half of Europe will not go away? Should we reward him even more for it, and why fly halfway around the world to Hawaii? I'm considering to end the trip.
came as the first information on the closure of airspace over London, we had just recovered from the fact that actually strike the Lufthansa pilots did not want. But actually it would have been perfect if they strike: Lufthansa would be in the exercise of the transaction have been prevented and the pilots had a strike. This is called consensus. Fortunately, at least the next week for air traffic controllers have called off the strike ...
We were on the clock for 21.35 Friday posted. No one would come off much earlier. The night I've checked all the options. As prices of € Stars then attracted during the night to over 300 EUR per person, I have not even wanted to. LD Lines is at 17.00 clock from Le Havre - which is to create either the day before on the day of the cruise. Seafrance and Norfolk do not take foot passengers with more. And P & O Ferries has announced record no foot passengers in the next 24 hours. When at last their website at night time was zugängich again, would be the first Ferry from Calais to 09.55 clock was. We could have done it but not time to come to Calais, nor would we have done within 25 miles of a car to be found. And on the track with station exchange in London I had no motivation.
Lufthansa drove even the salami tactics, and was always optimistic, and that British Airways had canceled all flights on Friday. That's why I could check myself the night before already.
Plan B was to appear in time at the airport that we if necessary. that evening with the ICE train to Brussels or Paris would - somehow.
And when we arrived at the airport, all flights were canceled because all Flüghafen in Germany were shut out of Munich.
Should you better look for a new friend because he likes vulcanos and now it's the responsibility of a vulcono that half of Europe is unable to move??? Should you reward him to travel half around the world to Hawaii??? I will decide at the end of this voyage.
When the first information came that London closed the air sparce we were just happy that Lufthansa's pilots cancelled their planned strike. But it would have been perfect in case of a strike: Lufthansa was unable to do anyhow the business and the pilots got their strike. That's what you are calling consense. We are happy that the air control in Germany cancelled their strike for the next week.
We were booked for 21.35 hrs on Friday Night. None of us was able to leave earnier. I checked all options all night long. Eurostar increased their rates to more than 300 EUR per person. That I did not want. LD Lines would leave 17.00 hrs from Le Havre what was impossible to make: neither on the day before the cruise starts nor on the day of embarkation. Seafrance and Norfolk do not accept foot-passengers. And P&O Ferries announced not to accept further foot passengers for the next 24 hours. Finally I made it somehow on their weibsite and the first departure I could get a booking was 09.55 hrs. We could not made it to Calais nor we could get a car from a car rental within a range of 25 miles. And I disliked the idea of taking the train with a change of the stations.
Lufthansa did salami slicing and was always optimistic while British Airways cancelled already all flights for Friday. So it was possible to do online check-in the night before.
Plan B was to be right on time at the airport that we can get on the last ICE InterCityExpress High-Speed-Train towards Brussels or Brussels - somehow.
And when we finally made it to the airport all flights were cancelled as all German airports were closed except Munich.
I never have experienced Frankfurt airport so smooth and empty on a Friday night. And the drivers of our airport parking service Platzhirsch-Parkhaus also might thought that we just arrived from the moon when we wanted to park our car and to have a transfer to the airport terminal.
Noch nie hatte ich Frankfurt Flughafen freitags abends so leer erlebt. Und die Fahrer vom top dog-park have thought that we were coming from the moon, as we parked and would be brought to the terminal.
I wanted to have everything already clarified by telephone. Even my senator hotline did not help: 20-30 minutes on hold were already in it failed. So we had before the luggage counter. There, we were told that the further issue of so-called ground transportation vouchers is set, except that one had been checking in ... What a lucky ...
Originally I wanted to check everything by a phone-call. Even my priority Senator hotline did not work: 20-30 minutes unsuccessful waiting loop. So we need to see anyway the check-in counter. There we were told that the release of ground transportation vouchers was suspended unless you had already checked-in... What a luck that we already had our boarding passes...
We could have also Frankfurt - London but we knew already that the first available seats in Eurostar train were only available at times which would not have allowed us to be right on time embarkation in Southampton or to see Windsor castle as planned.
Wir hätten auch Frankfurt - London haben können, aber da ich schon wusste, dass auch freie Plätze im Eurostar mitlerweile nur noch zu Zeiten zu haben wären, die uns nicht ermöglicht hätten, rechtzeitig in Southampton, let alone in Windsor to be there.
the Ground Transportation Voucher must be in the DB travel center in turn exchanged for a ticket if you want to go abroad. Within Germany you can submit the simple to the guard. The queues at the airport Frankfurt were correspondingly long. So we have had it in the DB Lounge make ado.
If you have an international ground transportation vouchers you need to see a ticket office of DB German Railways German Railways. For domestic travels you can just show it the conductor. The queues at Frankfurt airport were quite long. We So the DB Lounge asked to arrange the tickets for us against presentation of the Ground Transportation Vouchers.
The train was right on time. But one idiot (Sorry - need to use this expression!) In the corporate control center that our ICE InterCity Express High-Speed Train need to be run as a commuter train and should stop additionally at two stops to replace another canceled train.
The train was actually on time. However, it had really a jerk (sorry -! Have to say so unfortunately) decided in the transportation center that was to play our ICE train and keep the road in South-Limburg and Montabaur need to replace a failed ICE.
Who was the slogan of the track goes: "Reserved is guaranteed". What good is one when one has reserved the last two places in bahn.comfort area if one does not come clean. That we come in should not even remember how the Indian Railways, we have not thought of.
How does German Railways make people paying for the seats: "Reserved is GUARANTEED. Somehow it was frustrating if you got the last two possible assigned seats in the dedicated frequent-traveler-section if you can not get into the car. As it would be like you know from TV from India that you have no chance to board the train we never expected before. Relatively
This was "empty". Just like Tokyo Metro.
That was still verhältismäßig "empty". Conditions as in the Tokyo subway ...
We actually found a nice place standing in the car 36th The right door was broken, so that we can pass in South-Limburg, Montabaur, Siegburg / Bonn, Cologne main station, Hauptbahnhof Aachen, Liège and Brussels-North Guillemins anything because no one could get out there to the finish Brussels-South. However, it was in Cologne just so empty that we were optimistic us to get up with their luggage (suitcase with dress) by the BordBistro to the platform should be noted that it has become even worse. Officially, the train will be boarded by reservation only, but even the Federal Police war machtlos.
We found a nice place to stand in car 36. The right door was out of order so we should not have any problems at the intermediate stops because none was anyhow able to leave the train until we arrived Brussels South Station. In Cologne it became temporary so empty that we were optimistic to try to get off the train trough the restaurant car with our baggage (incl. suitecase for our tuxedos) just to find out at the platform that it should become worse. Officially you should only board the train if you have reservations but even the railways police had no power to control the situation anymore.
We got a place to stand with a view to our reserved seats. In Aachen one woman swooned. I was one of the less persons around who speak French and German, so I gave up my space to call for help and to translate. Passengers with final destinations in Cologne and Aachen were requested to change to other regional trains to give those passengers a chance to be onboard for destinations in Belgium. But somehow idiots looked same who ignored this request. For safety reason they slowed down the operation to 200 km/h instead of normally 300 km/h on the new track lines between Frankfurt and Cologne.
Wir hatten dann zumindest in Sichtweite unserer reservierten Plätze einen Platz erwischt. In Aachen ist eine Dame ohnmächtig geworden. Da ich nun einer der wenigen war, die sowohl Französisch als auch Deutsch could, I gave up my place to call for help and translate. There were actually passengers with destination Cologne and Aachen also be asked to change my way in the regional market to allow at least the next came to Liege and Brussels. But somehow always look the same idiots who make such requests from nothing. On the new line between Frankfurt and Cologne, the train was therefore only 200 km / h from safety instead of 300 km / h.
In Liege then was at least as much space, at least that the case had to be stacked no more only twice or three times above the other, so that one could stand in the aisle. A toilet was clogged, and even then was more or less busy as it was then repaired in the harbor road in Hamburg. There were always a few women who think with their smiles prevail to have, in which they fight their way to the toilet and then realize the very place that people are only in it to create additional space that would otherwise be wasted . It smelled accordingly in the area because the door was open ...
Once we arrived in Liège we got so much space that we did not need to triple shift the baggage but just double shift and still have enough space to stand in the gangways. One toilet was congested and even this cabin was even taken to stand somewhere. There were few ladies who thought with their smiles they could make people moving that they can see the toilet but just to arrive in front of the cabin to find out that some were standing inside just to use every little square inch to stay onboard. As the door was kept open it smelled all the time like that.
We did not expected such situations. But you need to say that the conductors used to be like in Tokyo and pushed you into the trains somehow just to get you in for those passengers like us who wanted to go to Belgium. Due to the arrival every store in Brussels South was closed. No way to buy any food or drinks. We had no chance to see the restaurant car. Our Plan B was to go to Bruges. Brussels was "occupied" by all who hoped to get somehow on the Eurostar train and it was this night unaffordable to stay there.
We had not expected such conditions. Nevertheless, it must be said that the train conductors have really behaved almost like in Tokyo and have pressed, where they could, so at least those who wanted to Belgium, somehow came along. The delay was in Brussels-South to all. There was not anything to eat or drink to buy at the station. And the BordBistro we have not done so. Plan B provided that we continue to Bruges. Brussels was already "under siege" by all who hoped for the Euro star and therefore priceless in that night.
The place and the silence in the inter city of Belgium Eisenbahn tat einfach gut. 200% Besetzung, wie mir die Zugbegleiterin testiert hat, waren schlicht und einfach zuviel.
The space and the silence in the InterCity train of the Belgian Railways were very relaxing. 200% occupation which was confirmed by the conductor before was too much for us.
We booked a hotel on my new favorite hotel booking engine booking.com . Just 202 EUR for two nights in Azalea Hotel . I found that the taxi ride was extremely expensive due to the many one ways we need to go. The welcome of the night receptions was very friendly. The foom itself was somehow a little narrow. It smelled too much like an air freshener, which should overcover the natural smell of an old house search.
About booking.com , my new favorite hotel portal I have for affordable 202 EUR for two nights in a room Azalea Hotel . The taxi ride I was extremely expensive, but unfortunately due to the many one-way street. The reception by the night porter was very friendly. The room was a little tight. It smelled too strongly of the air freshener that will now superimpose the time course of such an old house containing Muff.
had that night we are supposed to stay at the Marriott in Windsor. But they were so rude when I inquired at the time, als nicht absehbar war, ob nun der Flug stattfindet oder nicht und ich wirklich um 16.00 Uhr nicht fest stornieren konnte. Ihnen war es egal, aus welchen Gründen ich nicht anreise: Um 16.01 Uhr werden die Stornogeführen fällig.
In this night we should originally stayed at the Windsor Marriott. But they were so unfriendly when we asked to extend the cancellation time without penalty as at the time of the request it was unclear if our flight should go or not. They did not took any care why you could not appear: 16.01 hrs is the time to pay penalty.
The surprise came when we took away the day cover: 1 mattress and 1 giant wool-sandwich-blanket... They wanted us to feel like going on MSC ...
The surprise came, however, even when we took away the covering: 1 mattress and a giant rug with a reference ... They wanted that we feel like at MSC ...
I quickly add water and a bite to eat me worried. But after the first bite, my appetite was gone, probably because it was too much but what was going on the trip. I just could not raise me and my favorite sausage rolls, as they are known only in Belgium and the Netherlands, then to just for breakfast. Only because we had the night porter actually already said that he awaits us there, because the bread itself every morning backt und das riecht man auch...
I got some water and a quick bite. But after the first bite I felt so bad and I could not eat anymore. It was too much. Even it was my favourite saussage roll which you only can get in Belgium and the Netherlands. I kept it for the next day's breakfast. But the night receptionist told us already what we should expect as he baked the bread every morning himself and you can smell it...
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