21st dec..
hey.. what is derrick doing here, writing his blog?
isn't he supposed to be on his way to the land of the midday moon?
well.. i WAS supposed to be, until i MISSED the plane!! haha..
i had planned so well the timing for all the transport to beauvais airport..
the train at 948am so i will reach paris at around 11am, from there i will take a coach to the airport, which will take an hour and 10 mins, so i will reach there well before 2pm, ample time for my flight which is at 245pm..
yes, it was supposed to be..
until when i reached paris and realised that the coach does not leave from the place i arrived from troyes!! it is at another station, which they have no answer to initially when i asked the person at the info counter.. they had to ask their collegues.. i'm pretty sure that i'm not the 1st to have asked them the same question..
then came the next miscalculation: i assumed that the coach leaves for beauvais airport at regluar intervals, maybe every 30mins or 1 hr.. but no.. they leave 3 hrs prior every flight.. so that means for my flight at 245pm, i should have taken the coach at 1145am.. yes, i wished i had known it before i reach there!! it was already 1225pm when i reached the coach parking lot.. and the rest is history..
and that also meant that i had to forfeit my train ticket which i had booked months ago.. 29euros(sin$60).. so now i'm back in troyes, meeting surprised eyes everytime i meet someone whom knew that i wasn't supposed to appear here in front of them.. haha..
but i became rather tired of explaining again and again why i am still in troyes.. haha..
just got myself another flight on 23rd dec, thursday to stockholm..
SAME time as the previous one, but 3 times more expensive.. and on top of that, there's still the plane or train ticket to take care of when i reach stockholm which would take me to somewhere north of sweden so matti is able to pick me up from..
did some checks on the train.. some daunting results came out: 14 hrs from stockholm to lulea, the closest to matti's place.. but still nothing compared to the 16 hours i endured from barcelona to paris..
but i'm determined to go his place finland, since we have planned long time ago and his family are expecting me to be there.. no way i'm going to let them down..
oh well.. i would like to watch some show now to make myself feel better, well actually i'm better already.. i don't dwell on past bad experiences too long..
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