Itinerary time!
It's about that time again where I throw out my plans before my trip. If you didn't guess from my last post, I am headed to Spain next week for some skiing.
Turned out that the flight was only about 300 bucks more than going out to Denver and I'll be saving about 200 between the accommodation and lift ticket/equipment rental.
Sunday Jan 11 - Depart Tampa
Monday Jan 12 - Arrive Madrid work down to Granada
Tue-Thur Jan 13-15 - Ski
Friday Jan 16 - Get back to Madrid
Saturday Jan 17 - Madrid
Sunday Jan 18 - Depart Madrid arrive in Tampa at 11p
--Joey
6 comments:
I wanna go too.
Dadman
As long as we are prognosticating, how about this (reasonably likely) scenario? :
Jan 11 - leave Tampa 3 hours late due to one absent flight attendant and therefore miss flight to Madrid in NYC. Arrange alternate flight to Stockholm later that evening.
Jan 12 - Make way by bus down to Goteborg and Malmo. Miss last ferry across to Copenhagen and take taxi instead.
Jan 13 - Oversleep due to fatigue and miss the train to Frankfurt. Settle instead for the bus to Hamburg.
Jan 14 - Travel by train from Hamburg to Lyon, but the trip takes all day because you got out in Cologne to take a look at the cathedral. You then take a "local" train from Cologne to Lyon.
Jan 15 - Travel by bus from Lyon to Marseilles and are stuck there for 24 hours because of the transportation strike by French unions.
Jan 16 - Tour Marseilles (on foot, obviously). Make a ranting, expletive-filled blog entry later that afternoon.
Jan 17 - Reconsider options and decide that Andorra is within easier reach than Granada at this point. Start for Andorra by bus from Marseilles. The bus breaks down 20 miles from Port Bou and you spend the night in a flea-bag hotel near the border, but still in France.
Jan 18 - Realize that you need to get back and you immediately make a 20-hour bus trip to Paris after blowing another $600 for a change of carrier and departure city.
Jan 19 - Return to Tampa via Paris, NYC, and Miami, because of your last-minute booking.
Jan 20 - Arrive home at 2:00 am, get 3 hours of sleep and report to work at Apollo Beach at 7:00 am. Later that morning you go completely berserk after the sixth person asks: "Hey Joe, how was Spain?"
Later that evening you choke to death your (regrettably astute) father who asks:"Why didn't you just ski in France when you were in Lyon?"
I was looking at the Spanish edition of Google news and "El Pais" had a news story about Barajas having closed for 5 hours due to snow. They got much more snow than had been predicted and the airport staff got caught flat-footed. Hope everything will be back to normal by the time you get there- should be all worked out by the 12th. Have a wonderful time! Did you ever hear the saying in Spanish: No se quita lo que se ha bailado? Loosely, it means that what you have enjoyed cannot be taken from you. Hasta la vista!
Nunca he oido pero me lo encanta!
--Joey
Apparently google hasn't either btw ;)
Is that a Tia original?
--Joey
No, Joey, Tia is not that clever. You could try googling the phrase with "bailao" rather than "bailado". Love, Tia
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