Finally home from Ireland - 6 hours late!

[Goofyish]

What a nightmare journey!

I've been in Cork all week on business and was due to fly backlast night on the BMIBaby flight to East Midlands. The flight was due to take off at 9pm and land at 10pm.

Trouble was, Cork airport was cloaked in fog - just the airport everywhere else in Cork was clear

As we sat in the departure lounge they announced flight after flight being diverted to Shannon. A Stanstead flight was cancelled altogether!
Eventually our flight was also diverted to Shannon and they announced that we would be coached to Shannon airport at 11:30pm and arrive at Shannon at 1:30am!

After a cramped 2 hour coach trip across Ireland we arrived at Shannon airport and were instructed to get our own bags of the coaches - a right scrum as you can imagine

We then had to go through security again to get into the departure lounge. We were met with a couple of hundred US soldiers in full desert gear! Not sure i they were on route to or from Iraq. They looked very impressive though. They were the 1st Armoured Division ('Old Ironsides').

Our flight finally took off about 2:30am and thankfully I arrived home safely at 4:30am.

 

[Mike Jones]

Tim...what a waste of time! Frustrating to be relatively close to home and still blocked in that way! Go and have a curry and a couple of pints!

Mike

 

[nativetxn]

YIKES, Tim. You must be exhausted!

Will we see you in chat tomorrow?

 

[Olaf]

You poor thing, Tim. I remember that you weren't exactly looking forward to that trip. It makes getting home all that much more enjoyable.

btw the 1st AD is on their way to Iraq.

 

[KayleeUK]

Nothing worse than being delayed on your way home

 

[WDWfan uk]

Now I know what you were referring to in chat Tim. What an absolute nightmare!

Hope you are rested up now

 

[UKANGEL]

blimey what a nightmare Tim! Glad you're home safe and sound now!