Well, luckily my worries were for naught....I received an email shortly after my post earlier this morning from Luisella...."Don’t worry, we haven’t changed idea, we are coming to Boston in September. We were busy in the last days and we are getting ready going to London the next week. When you are in Rome, watch out for your wallet and your money, there are thieves and you are without money without realizing it!! It’s happened to my husband two months ago!! Pay attention especially where there are a lot of people."
Since I was robbed in Paris in 2005, I'm optimistic that the thieves will find other prey than me, but I'll be doubly careful after her reminder.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Countdown to July 20th
Okay, two months from today I'll be leaving for Newfoundland! Things continue to fall into place and some not so much....
I realized yesterday that it has been sometime since I've heard from Luisella, who is my contact for Sardinia! She had emailed me in early April saying they'd be coming September 1-23, and I went ahead and booked flights, etc. (Remember how cheap I said they were?) Yesterday afternoon I emailed her to see if she is still coming....It is now approximately 2:20 in Italy with no word....So I have emailed some other people on Sardinia with a preliminary inquiry about swapping with them, in case plan #1 doesn't pan out....Meanwhile, I keep telling myself that swaps are all about mutual trust...maybe she forgot to tell me they have bought their tickets or she's had a personal crisis or whatever? So where I will be September 1-23 is up in the air right now....
Off to the pool to put this all aside!:))
I realized yesterday that it has been sometime since I've heard from Luisella, who is my contact for Sardinia! She had emailed me in early April saying they'd be coming September 1-23, and I went ahead and booked flights, etc. (Remember how cheap I said they were?) Yesterday afternoon I emailed her to see if she is still coming....It is now approximately 2:20 in Italy with no word....So I have emailed some other people on Sardinia with a preliminary inquiry about swapping with them, in case plan #1 doesn't pan out....Meanwhile, I keep telling myself that swaps are all about mutual trust...maybe she forgot to tell me they have bought their tickets or she's had a personal crisis or whatever? So where I will be September 1-23 is up in the air right now....
Off to the pool to put this all aside!:))
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Ten Weeks from Next Tuesday (May 18, 2010)
I will be leaving for Newfoundland!!! I will meet up with Ivy in Toronto, and then we will fly into St. John's, Newfoundland!
And the miscellaneous details are falling into place...a rental car here(just booked the one I'll need for Spain; the Hertz price was about $300 less than AutoEurope), the odd hotel there (for those interim nights between swaps), checking out train schedules, etc. Where to stay in Italy from August 28-September 1st, when I leave for Sardinia? What tough decisions!!! WHAT FUN!!!
[And this is not to mention that I do need to think about my next trip, only in terms of scheduling, since I will only be home three months before I head off so as not to miss the New Zealand summer! So I have sent off some emails and made some calls to the Round the World websites to explore that! It is a bit premature to book those flights, since they all have some sort of time limits before you can book, and I don't know when I'll be coming home next spring yet!]
I've booked some more flights with RyanAir for the fall, although their system IS NOT too user-friendly. For example, after I had booked a flight from Alicante, Spain, to Venice, I got an error message saying there had been a problem with my reservation. I rebooked a flight, and went on about my business....Several days later I realized that I had not gotten a confirmation email. (I will HAVE to print out my own boarding pass or have to pay something like 40euro!) And I could not find my reservation in their system, so I booked another flight....(Heaven forbid I not catch up with Jane and Joan in Venice!)Hopefully RyanAir will credit me for one of these flights!:))
RyanAir is based in Dublin, so I am not too keen to call them! However, I did fax them a letter and am awaiting their response. Today their website said that they are about 25 days behind due to the problems caused by the Icelandic volcano....
And the miscellaneous details are falling into place...a rental car here(just booked the one I'll need for Spain; the Hertz price was about $300 less than AutoEurope), the odd hotel there (for those interim nights between swaps), checking out train schedules, etc. Where to stay in Italy from August 28-September 1st, when I leave for Sardinia? What tough decisions!!! WHAT FUN!!!
[And this is not to mention that I do need to think about my next trip, only in terms of scheduling, since I will only be home three months before I head off so as not to miss the New Zealand summer! So I have sent off some emails and made some calls to the Round the World websites to explore that! It is a bit premature to book those flights, since they all have some sort of time limits before you can book, and I don't know when I'll be coming home next spring yet!]
I've booked some more flights with RyanAir for the fall, although their system IS NOT too user-friendly. For example, after I had booked a flight from Alicante, Spain, to Venice, I got an error message saying there had been a problem with my reservation. I rebooked a flight, and went on about my business....Several days later I realized that I had not gotten a confirmation email. (I will HAVE to print out my own boarding pass or have to pay something like 40euro!) And I could not find my reservation in their system, so I booked another flight....(Heaven forbid I not catch up with Jane and Joan in Venice!)Hopefully RyanAir will credit me for one of these flights!:))
RyanAir is based in Dublin, so I am not too keen to call them! However, I did fax them a letter and am awaiting their response. Today their website said that they are about 25 days behind due to the problems caused by the Icelandic volcano....
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