Air Travel

I'm starting to think that I should register all the stuck_in_* addresses just in case of these eventualities. For those that know of the Australian fiasco, it wasn't quite as bad as that but nearly as stupid...

I was meant to be in Guatemala now, chilling on a lake before starting my spanish course tomorrow, however fate (or more acurately the Cuban system) was against me. I got to the airport well in advance, knowing how much queuing goes on around here, and checked in with plenty of time to spare so sat down with a coffee to do some swatting up on the country.
Just as I was packing up to go through to departures the nice man that checked me in found me and the conversation went something as follows:

cuban: 'you plane has left'
me: 'sorry?"
cuban: 'you have missed you flight'
me: 'no I haven't'
cuban: 'thats it on the runway'
me: 'bugger'
me: 'but its still got an hour to go before it leaves!!'
cuban: 'no, the clocks changed last night and we haven't updated the ones in the airport yet'
me: 'raaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'

and so on...

I tried to book another flight, but the ones that are running are completly full, so I'm stuck around here until thursday when I'm going to pretty much chain myself to the f*cking plane so it can't leave without me this time.

oh well, not as bad as my friend who just spent the last 2 days in jail for trying to repremand a guy who stole his wallet, and wasn't allowed to call anyone to give him bail...

(and yes there were probably anouncments, but they're never for you are they?!)

going to drink rum now, and lots of it

...first stop is Madrid where I´m currently sat in an internet cafe trying to get all the things done that I never quite got round to in London; despite having known I was going for ages, I left everything to the last minute.

It has been a lot harder than I imagined leaving the big smoke, after living there for 5 crazy years, it has really quite grown on me along with the people that have made it all it is. Big up to the whole Galahs/CMC/ Clapham crew.

Anyways, I think I´ve just about managed to whittle away my transit window now, so I am actually off to Cuba this time, where I hope to have something a little more interesting to write about in the next exciting installment.