After standing in line with other disgruntled passengers for a very long time we got tickets on the 9 am flight to Düsseldorf and then direct to Toronto. They wouldn't give us a boarding pass for the Toronto to Halifax portion but the time was tight.
We got to our gate (A5) and waited. When they called the flight we were told it was not our fight after all. We looked at the board and it was now listed as Gate A34.... a long way away... we ran. We thought we heard our names being called on the PA ... just to add to the tension.
When we got to gate A34 we were told that our flight was not at that gate but we needed to be at gate A11! Back near where we started ... ran again.
We had about given up hope of making our flight but when we got to the proper gate the nice lady there told us they would not be boarding for 20 mins. so no worries. Sigh.
The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful with the exception of crazy rain and wind we had in Toronto. So, a 2 hour flight to Düsseldorf, a 7 hour flight to Toronto, through Customs and then a 2.5 hour Air Canada flight back to Halifax. This all makes for a long day buy at least we are home.
We managed to wear almost everything we took and were glad we had jackets and long pants for the cold days.
It was a great holiday. We ate some wonderful food and drank some excellent wine. There were some wonderful sights and we saw a lot of Northern Italy. We'll be editing photos and putting up a proper album but this is the last entry for the Italy trip.
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