And So It Begins

From July 9^th I am going to be travelling across Europe for 22 days, I’m sure it doesn’t matter too much that I have the geographical knowledge of a confused goldfish, give me a map and I can just about point out where the UK is if I’m given enough time. Luckily for me (and probably unluckily for them) I have Karl and Dan to turn me around when I think East is West and Budapest is in Germany (I’m also not quite sure where Budapest actually is.)

Lucky Boys

I am however much better at knowing where places are thanks to several episodes of the TV program pointless, as well as now knowing that the Christ Redeemer is not the Angel of the North I also know that the Central African Republic is the answer to most of life’s questions. But I don’t expect that to help me since last time I checked the Central African Republic isn’t in the Eurovision Song Contest (my point of reference for the countries of Europe.)

                                  They do look very similar if you ask me.

I started the incompetence early whilst booking my plane to Krakow, apparently it’s not reasonable to think that railcards work on planes, I was under the uncommon misconception that the cards work on all forms of transport, I guess the “rail” part should have been my first clue.

Buying a plane ticket should be quite simple but not with Ryanair, the annoying relative of all of the airlines. I spent a good five minutes trying to work out why I was being charged more for travel insurance which I did not want. An exasperated Karl on the phone telling me to tick the box did not help, especially when there was no box to tick. Eventually after restarting the whole process I got past the seemingly endless torture of booking my first plane ticket. I guess I will find out where I went terribly wrong when I end up on a flight to Syria.

I think that’s all I have to ramble about at the moment, but I will be back with more updates soon, probably about how not to pack for 22 days in several foreign Countries.