Welcome to England. Again.

I'm back in England since Wednesday and the flight and all that stuff was suprisingly easy – compared to the disaster about two weeks ago.

I actually was quite sad to be leaving again, but I don't think I really had a choice! Well, there are only 7 weeks left and the last four months passed by incredibly fast! I'm just afraid that the last bit will appear to be terribly long, you know what I mean?

Anyways, I think my last day at work is the 18th of February but my flight home is at the 28th of February so... I thought I might as well leave earlier. I have to go on working at March 1st so I'd have a bit time to calm down and get settled. I asked the guys at the airport and rebooking would cost about £80!!! I only paid 130€ when I booked the whole thing last summer!!! That's insane! But I think I may do it anyways... I'll try to see a few things in and around Oxford at the weekends so I'll get through with that now :)

It's not that I don't enjoy being here but now that I've been home... the first few days here were a bit hard and I felt like going back immediately but it's getting better. And still I wouldn't like going back at the end of February now that I considered leaving earlier. It's just that after such a long time I really wanna be home with my family and friends and everything familiar.

Oxford is absolutely lovely and nice and I enjoy my time here, but I can't help thinking that it gets a little boring after a while. Wish me luck for tomorrow with the rebooking!

Return to Terminal 5

My flight was cancelled the following morning, what a surprise and the hotel agreed to let my stay another night without any problems.

I got yet another rebooking for the upcoming night. Same time, just a day later. I was supposed to leave the hotel the next day at 12.00am and that was fine.

The next morning came and my flight was cancelled once again. I was getting really sick of all of this and much to my pleasure, the rebooking didn’t work anymore. The website of British Airways kept crashing regularly ever since Saturday and I was told to call my travel agent.

Turned out they couldn’t access my flight details either because BA blocked them! I couldn’t rebook and my hotel kicked me out because BA didn’t confirm my cancellation. I was told to call the hotline to get another voucher. Calling the hotline was useless cause they effused the call right from the start, let alone the fact that they charged you for the call!

I had no choice but to leave the hotel, I didn’t have the money to pay for the hotel myself, and spent the say with all my damn luggage in rainy London. Couldn’t take it anymore and went back to the airport in the afternoon because I was running out of options.

I was totally shattered by the time I was back in Terminal 5. Sleeping on the cold stone floor made me ill again and I was suffering from a bad cold at that time!!! Finally, I found someone to help me. I got a rebooking for Wednesday but the closest to Dusseldorf I got was Brussels… I had no chance but accepting this.

After that, I went back to the cold stone floor, trying to rest at least a little bit…