As me and my friends are pretty corny we decorated padlocks and attached them to a bridge in her town. We also got matching bracelets and attached one of the keys from our padlock to our bracelet.
So finally it came to the end of our week in Italy and we decided to go out for a goodbye meal at this quaint little restaurant, it was the perfect end to the perfect week!
We then got back to p's and decided we should probably pack. As our coach was at 3am we decided there wasn't much point in us going to sleep as we could just sleep on the plane home - stupid mistake! To bide the time we went out on the roof and took so many pictures, talked, laughed, cried, hugged and of course a final ice cream run! Then we got on the coach, saying goodbye wasn't easy, but hey it never is with someone who means so much to you. We had the tedious coach journey back and arrived in Munich at about 7 am. But look how cool our coach was!!
This was when the trouble began. We got to the airport and went to check in at one of those kiosk places and it said that there were no tickets under our name. So of course we started to panic a little and got straight in the cue to talk to someone. Whilst we were waiting I thought that it would be a good idea to have a second look at our flight information, it was the 13th of August, and our flight should have been at 9:05. Our flight was booked for this time but on the 13th of September! OH GOD! So I shared this information with my friends and the panic set in! We were now 4 hours from Paola's house, in a foreign country with barely any money, a serious language barrier and we hadn't slept for over 24 hours. We had about a hundred euros left at this point and we ran over to the Lufthansa desk and told them our situation trying not to cry! At this point I would like to share that at the time we were all only 17. Their basic response was, we cant get out on that flight, we cant refund your ticket and tickets for the next available flight are 700 euros! OH GOD! So we went around all of the other desks asking about flights to anywhere in the uk and they were all like 300 pounds so we decided to go on one of those computers that you insert money into! I rang my dad and asked him to transfer money into my friends account and then we found some tickets for 150 with Singapore airlines. We booked them and thought that everything was fine! Of course we weren't that lucky! It was about 1pm then and we decided to get some food and then see if the desk for Singapore airlines was open, it was so we went to confirm our bookings. Everything was booked and fine but as we went to walk away they asked us how old we are and we answered 17. They then said "no problem we just need a letter of written consent from your parents" OH GOD! Our parents are in the uk with no way of signing this paperwork! So then the head of Singapore airlines had to speak to my dad and there was a whole guardian issue and lets just say it was complex! Finally, everything was sorted and we decided it was best to go through security as early as possible as we weren't having much luck! Our flight was booked for 6am the following day so we had to stay in the airport overnight! As we checked in so early our gate wasn't up yet so we decided to try and have a nap in gate G. A few sleepless hours later our gate was scheduled as gate H which involved a boarder control! When we got there they asked us for our letters of written consent from our parents and we tried to explain that it had all been sorted an emailed but they were having non of it! So we were taken to a holding cell! OH GOD! We then got questioned on where we were going and where we came from. It was about 8pm now and we decided to get some food and try and find somewhere to rest as now it had been around 36 hours since we had any sleep! We found these amazing comfy chairs to sleep in and at about 1 o'clock we were woken up by police men asking to look at our passports and tickets - after that little sleep I would have given my passport and ticket to anyone! Then at 5:45 we boarded and flew to Manchester then had a 2 hours drive home!
You can see why I titled this idiots abroad now! Here are some extra pictures <3
Beth <3
