We were sad to have been leaving Greece but it was time to head back to Florence. All of us are very tired and slightly on edge already since traveling is exhausting physically and emotionally. Yes, surprisingly traveling is not always as glamorous as it often looks. There are definitely difficulties.
Today my patience and positivity were greatly tested. It is currently 7 pm on a Monday here in Italy and I have reached my breaking point. Today was our last day of travel on our fall break and we had run into multiple frustrating obstacles; unlike the rest of our trip that went smoothly with all forms of transportation.
The morning started off early, our first flight out of Mykonos was scheduled for 8:30 am due to weather, our flight was delayed until 4pm which was outrageous and very unnecessary. There was a little fog however it burned off by 10 am and the flight was still delayed. Unfortunately, this delay did not coordinate with our connecting flight in Athens and we were forced to buy another plane ticket. This was one very expensive obstacle but we could not miss our connecting flight because we have to get back to Florence today.
We arrived in Athens with plenty of time between our flights and everything seemed okay. We grabbed a bite to eat and continued to wait for our next flight. Our 3:30pm departure then turned into a 4 pm departure which at the time seemed like no big deal. Of course when we originally planned the trip we had plenty of time to catch all of our means of transportation without any glitches.
Once we got to Rome we realized our train time was sooner than we thought. We didn’t have much control over the train that took us to the train station. We had to accept the fact that we would have to run in order to make the train back to Florence. The train from the airport ended up being 5 minutes late so we literally had to sprint and of course we were on the farthest platform from our next train. All three of us sprinted to the opposite end of the train station just to watch the train leave without us. We missed it by literally a minute.
We watched the train leave in disbelief. We were so close. After everything that has happened today we just needed to make this train. A reservation compulsory train is not cheap last minute. We went to the support booth and explained our situation yet the lady said she couldn’t do anything because we didn’t allow ourselves 15 minutes to get on the train. However, in actuality we did but all of these obstacles hindered us from having that 15 minutes. We explained that the airport train was 5 minutes late and that our plane was delayed yet she continued to say she couldn’t do anything.
At this point we all are even more tired than we were this morning at 6:30am and we just wanted to get home. We had no choice but to purchase another ticket to Florence which was yet another expensive obstacle.
I am sitting here right now on the train to Florence feeling completely defeated. All day I have been trying to send positive thoughts and vibes to allow us to get home without any problems especially after our first flight delay. All of these positives thoughts yet we continued to be shut down by the universe. Sometimes I find it hard to grasp why things like this happen. What did I do to have this happen to me? Not only did it become a longer day but it was so expensive after an already expensive vacation.
I understand that issues arrise during travel, however the dominoe effect of issues just seemed to keep falling upon us. I can’t seem to shirk this overwhelming negative emotion from circumstances out of my control. What is this universe trying to tell me?
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