Sunday 4th July 2010
Anne took us to the airport, with Duncan suffering the beginnings of a migraine. We had applied for an upgrade but we didn’t get one. The overseas flight is a code share with Air Calin – definitely French as when they handed out the small bottles of wine they asked you if you wanted two!
After a good flight we came through customs to see a man with a board and our name on it. Went to the transfer desk, but a transfer to Tieti Tera just wasn’t a possibility. Waited and waited. Many phone calls decided that the transfer would be tomorrow afternoon.
Put up in the very substandard Toutontotel. All evening with nowhere to sit in the room. The meal was OK – the anger had made us hungry. The Cote de Rhone wine made us a bit more mellow. Then back to the grotty room with the grotty wellworn blanket on the bed. I burned my hand on the lampshade which had to be on all the time as the old bedspread that was strung up over the window could not be drawn.
Anne took us to the airport, with Duncan suffering the beginnings of a migraine. We had applied for an upgrade but we didn’t get one. The overseas flight is a code share with Air Calin – definitely French as when they handed out the small bottles of wine they asked you if you wanted two!
After a good flight we came through customs to see a man with a board and our name on it. Went to the transfer desk, but a transfer to Tieti Tera just wasn’t a possibility. Waited and waited. Many phone calls decided that the transfer would be tomorrow afternoon.
Put up in the very substandard Toutontotel. All evening with nowhere to sit in the room. The meal was OK – the anger had made us hungry. The Cote de Rhone wine made us a bit more mellow. Then back to the grotty room with the grotty wellworn blanket on the bed. I burned my hand on the lampshade which had to be on all the time as the old bedspread that was strung up over the window could not be drawn.
What’s more it rained!
It rained hard.
It seems to us that the promised transfer was from the local airport, not the International Airport three hours away. Night fell very early, and what with the migraine and red wine, we were not inclined to hire a car for a journey that involved sections that were not advised for night driving as they are mainly one way.
That evening, Duncan had a brain wave and we were able to cancel the trip to Tieti Tera and head straight to Ile des Pins.
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