Home Sweet Home

Most of us are now back home!  (Some are staying behind to continue their own travels).  We started out very early yesterday morning.  We got up at 5:00 am and had a light breakfast before leaving the boat.  We had a taxi van come to the boat at 6:30 am to pick up our luggage and take it to the train station. Terry, Roy and Eugene travelled with the luggage to help the drive unload it.  The rest of us walked the 2 km to the station, in the rain!
We took the 7:00 train to Koblenz.  It was an interesting ride as we encouraged a lot of German people, dressed in their traditional clothing, likely going to work at an Octoberfest venue. I was quite amazed to see that some of them were drinking beer!
We had to wait an hour at the Koblenz station before catching our high speed train to the Frankfurt airport.  There were sure some “interesting “ characters hanging around the station!
It’s a good thing that we arrived in plenty of time to the airport, as it is one of the most disorganized and least user friendly airports I have ever encountered!!  We had to take a bus from the gate to our plane and we travelled for about 15 minutes before we got to the plane.  Of course, we were jammed in like sardines!!!
Our flight departed a bit late (must have been the long bus ride) so we arrived in Reykjavik just in enough time to clear passport control and boogie all the way to our gate and get on another bus.  We didn’t have time to use the washroom....or so we thought... we got on the bus and then waited for almost 30 minutes for a late passenger, once again jammed in.  We were not impressed!!!
We had a 4 hour layover in Edmonton. By this time, everyone was exhausted.  Then we had to fly to Calgary and then Saskatoon, arriving at midnight.  We were lucky to get in and out of Calgary before that storm hit.







It was a long day, glad it is over!!! Thanks for tuning in!!

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