Because if they do, I’ll just have to walk

30 January 2009

A while ago I made the plans for my first jaunt abroad of the year: a one-night trip to Saarbrücken with Suzy, getting in just in time for the concert, spending the night in a swanky hotel (a free 500ml bottle of water? Oh, you shouldn’t have!) (16 Euros for breakfast? Oh, I don’t think so!) and then scooting back to Zweibrücken airport late morning to come home again. The flights and hotel were booked, tickets reserved.

Then yesterday Ryanair emailed me. Attention: we’ve ruined your flight plan, hope you don’t mind. We suggest you fly out to Zweibrücken the day after the concert and then catch the next flight available back to Stansted. What you do with the full 25 minutes between arriving and departing is entirely up to you, but may we recommend boarding the plane?

Fortunately Suzy can take an extra day of holiday, so now we’re flying out the day before the concert instead. At least this way we’ll arrive with more than 6 minutes to spare before the house lights go down and we might see more of Saarbrücken than just the 400m between the hotel and the train station.

But there’s no way I’m letting on which flights I have planned for July. I really don’t need a Ryanair executive wandering in here, reading my carefully laid out, grey hair-inducing plans and working out how best to balls them up for me.

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One Response to “Because if they do, I’ll just have to walk”

Lula
30th January 2009 @ 9:06 pm

Tonight? While I am enjoying a rare and carefully planned night out without my Littles? I am going to use the phrase ‘balls it up’ at some point. Thank you for the hilarity that is certain to ensue!!

;)

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