The night before traveling somewhere is always rough... As I always prepare my bags in the last minutes, working on my laptops until late at night, there are always only a couple of hours for sleep... This time, it was even worse... As there was a complete blackout the day before, I couldn't check flight tickets until the electricity and the Internet came back... It was already late at night, and there were only 4 hours left for sleep...
The alarm on the clock went off at 4:40 AM... It was time to get up and hit the road to the airport, or better said, to the parking company where we reserved a long-term park for the next 6 days... As of the previous day's circumstances, when we arrived, the QR code reader didn't work, and the ramp didn't go up! It was close to 6 AM, and there was nobody around! Luckily for us, the mini-bus driver saw was and explained that we had to go to another parking lot, where we finally parked our car and hit the road to the airport with a van... Only a few minutes more and we are there...
We heard that in all this confusion with electricity, the airports in Spain were functioning surprisingly well! When we arrived at the airport, it was all as usual... As you can see from the photo above, only 1 flight was canceled, which had to go to Barcelona, while the rest of the flights were flying on time...
Our plane was waiting for us and we were almost the last ones to board the plane... The flight was on time, and I think that we took off exactly in minute on time!
... and we landed 20 minutes BEFORE planned! I had even time to take a photo of the plane at Linz airport!
As there were no flights directly to Graz on days that were suitable for us, we landed in Linz and stayed there until the next day... (writing these lines from the apartment in Linz!)
We got an Uber, which took us to the city center where we booked our accommodation... This was our first time in Linz, and the biggest difference that we noticed was that everything was SO GREEN!! Of course, we are in the middle of Spring, but in part of Spain where we live, it's almost RED all year... 😂
We were lucky that we could leave our bags in the apartment before the official check-in, so we could go out and explore the city!
In this short post, I have shared only 3 photos, but no worries, I have plenty of them in my mobile phone... 😂
As I have lived most of my life in town at the banks of river Danube, it was interesting to pay a visit to this magnificent river here in Linz! The same water that passes by here will pass by my town in a few days... The first thing that came to my mind is to send a message in a bottle to my parents... 😃
Speaking of that, a small bonus song for the end of the post...
Stay tuned for more info from this year's @BuzzParty, #HiveCreatorDays, which will begin in less than 48 hours! Tomorrow, we are traveling by train to Graz, and we will probably get out in the evening to do some "pre-event" meetups! 😃
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