Sometimes you have to take the bad days in your stride when you travel

Well it's been a pain in the rear end the last two days, however it finished with meeting up with Rebecca in Florence, and Lisa & Kev at the resort we are all staying at in Tuscany. On Tuesday our flight to Genoa was cancelled due to a strike by workers over French airspace. That was ok because we stayed in an AC Marriott hotel near the airport which was a lovely hotel, and we managed a stroll along the beach the following morning. The sand had already been manicured for the day and was incredibly soft and you just sank into it.  We were back at the airport at about 1100hrs to stand in a queue for an hour to put our bags through. We were due to fly to Florence now at 1PM, however this was delayed by several hours. Boring! We finally boarded at 3.30PM only to sit on the tarmac until 6PM. Boring, and the 4 of us were scattered randomly around the plane. It was one of those occasions when half the plane claps when we finally lifted off.

So we finally get to Florence, now needing to get to the car rental before it closes. There was one taxi at a time servicing two flights that had come in so we ditched that idea and caught the airport shuttle.  Fortunately the bus was going to the train station which is where we needed to pick Reb up from. Unfortunately it was 8.30 by now and the car rental place which was nearby was closed.......
so we had to take two taxis (because now there are 5 of us with luggage) back to the airport to another car rental place that was still open. Instead of a 7 seater as we had originally planned we ended up with 2 Fiat Bambinos (how very Italian!) and we zoomed off into the darkness for an hour until we finally arrived at our destination at midnight. By this stage we hadn't eaten since breakfast and were feeling a tad hungry. Thankfully we were able to access food until 1AM so there we were drinking wine/beer, eating pizza for dinner and chatting away waiting for Lisa and Kev to arrive. We had decided that they were probably lost, having driven several hours from Rome. They finally arrived at 1.30 AM and we finally decided at 2.30AM that it was time to go to bed. It all ended fine. The resort is spectacular.