I’m off again – this time to vacation with my wonderful son, his Chistmas gift to me in 2013. He said we could go anywhere in the world that I hadn’t been before. We decided on Italy because I have an uncle buried at Cassino War Cemetery that no one in my mom’s family has viisted. I really wanted to visit and take pictures before his siblings all pass away.

It was a bit of a delayed start as our plane was late leaving Frankfurt and hence we were two hours late leaving Toronto. Needless to say we didn’t make our connecting flight, to Naples, in Frankfurt. Despite trying to sort things out with the airline prior to leaving Toronto, we had to wait until arriving in Frankfurt to find out what plans they had for us. In the plane, they announced that all those on the Naples flight had been rerouted through Munich. It would seem like a rather simple solution to just go to the gate and pick up our new boarding passes, but no, we had to stand in line for 75 minutes at the Service Centre to hear that we were rebooked and get our new passes. In fact, we were only 3 hours later arriving in Naples but it meant that we won’t see anything of the city.

International travel is not for the faint-of-heart. Delays such as we experienced today provide wonderful opportunities to wait in new and different airports and to sample new and different airline food. While we were happy to finally arrive all in one piece, we are both quite tired and decided to eat at the hotel bistro instead of searching out a local restaurant. We both suspect that our dinner was thawed and reheated…but didn’t much care!

Now it’s off to bed for tomorrow is Pompeii and the Amalfi coast.