Berlin: Week One
I t was a rough start getting to Berlin... ie failing hydraulic systems on the plane needed to be fixed; you know the landing gear, not super necessary equipment. The 24 hour delay allowed us to run home, cuddle the cat, grab a few of the items we had been unsure about and drink a bottle of wine. We still took advantage of the free hotel stay AND some lovely dinner vouchers. However, we could have enjoyed the breakfast vouchers for a bit longer had we known that the next 5 hours would require us standing in a forever line to rebook the flight we already had tickets for. The words, "Your connecting flight boarding pass will be waiting for you in Munich." Is a tricky statement that should have been a small window into the German bureaucracy as Alexis would later explain to me. What that lovely airline attendant actually meant is that we would arrive to Munich dazed and confused be told to go through Passport control and wait for a suitcase that would never come because obvious