Arrival/1st day

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Well. The adventure is off to a rocky start.

I was completely stupid on several counts and am now in Bergamo airport, hoping against hope that I can get my standby flight to Newcastle, three hours after I was expecting to be in Glasgow. I will be on the plane when I wanted to be on the train to Glencoe. At least if I get this flight, they wont charge me another 60 euro. Oh well, learning experience. Remember when I said I had managed to not get into any more scrapes. I think this counts as a Scrape.

By the way, a taxi ride from Milano to Bergamo on a non-Easter weekend day is normally forty minutes, and about 70 euro. On Good Friday, it is an hour and fifteen minutes, and 85 euro. Thats about a hundred dollars. I'm telling you now so you don't find out the way I did. For those with more than a few brain cells devoted to planning ahead, the train is 35 minutes and costs 3.50. At least Ryan air was helpful, even tho I've heard horror stories from other people.

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Well I got the flight, even though it was two hours delayed. Then a string of really helpful people, and the near miraculous catching of the last train to Glasgow (I arrived at the train station ten minutes before it left). I met two guys who had missed, and then caught, the same flights I had, and we ended up sharing a cab to the West End. I love my guest-house, its a great deal for 25 sterling- free use of the DVD library, private room (with a better bed than mine in Milano) and most of all, quiet! I watched some terrible British show and then finally conked out around 23.30. On to Arran!

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