March 5
What a day! Up at 5 and to the airport shuttle via the metro by 6:15. The shuttle to Beavouis took about an hour. That's when the trouble began.
The airport got fogged in. But then they called us to board, so that was weird. We were herded down the aisle like a bunch of sheep. I was catching bits and pieces of French from the crew in the airport... Did someone say "Belgium"?? They were handing out instruction sheets and when Ann reached for one, she was "poo-poohed." Like, "don't bother, you stupid American, this is in French."
Behind us in the crowd, I found a nice gentleman who spoke English. He explained that since this airport was fogged in, they were bussing us to Belgium, where we would be flown to Rome.
Well, after a two-hour bus ride and a three-hour wait in the Belgium airport, we boarded a flight for Rome. Two hours later we reached the holy city, about eight hours behind schedule.
It was dark and raining, so we just went directly to the train station and got on the next train to Florence. Arrived in our our hotel room around 10:30 pm.
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