Almost exactly a day, actually. I left the house at 1 pm eastern on Monday, arrived at the airport 2 pm eastern, the flight, sheduled to leave at 17:30 eastern actually left at 21:45 or so. I then took two more flights, from Berlin to Munich and from Munich to Budapest, at 18:30 Hungarian time, or 11:30 eastern time, Tuesday. While waiting for my first flight I happened to be sitting near an older couple and a guy a couple years older than me. He was Albanian, studying economics, and they were from Bari, Italy. They had initially asked to make sure they were getting on the correct flight, as they didn't speak any English. However, the Albanian guy's Italian was a bit rusty, and at one point, where he was failing to adequately mime skiing,
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