Geek 2.0

I had to attend a meeting in our premises in Linlithgow, nearby Edinburgh in Scotland.
Going to there was …. well … my worst travel experience ever.

It all started with a one hour delay for my connecting flight in London Gatwick.  Ok, I have to admit this is not so bad … yet … delayed flights are far more frequent these days and we should rather blog about flights being on time rather than delayed flights 🙂

When I finally make it to Edinburgh, It was to realize than my luggage did not follow me when I was at London … here I am in Scotland with just my laptop and mobile phone.

After having filled-in the required forms and complaint about the missing luggage, I learned that taxis seems to avoid the airport area at night … there was a queue of 20-30 persons waiting and … no taxi at all !

After 30-35 minutes, when enough taxis arrived to serve everyone, I though my journey was almost over.  But it was without knowing that my taxi driver had no clue about where my hotel was … 20 minutes later, we were lost in the middle of nowhere and had to stop twice to ask for directions.

The fun continued at the reception desk of the hotel … no booking whatsoever … For this, I was (almost) entirely responsible.  We had to change our hotel booking quite late and, … guess what ? I went to the wrong hotel !  

40 minutes after, and having met another taxi driver, I finally arrived to the hotel where a room was indeed booked for me.

I will just pass quickly on the other little annoyances, like no wifi access in my room (most of my colleagues’ rooms were ok), the TV set not working at all, and the alarm clock from my Palm that did not function properly the next morning …. causing me to arrive a little bit late at the meeting.

All together it was quite an interesting travel experience.  Next time I will take care Mr Murphy will not travel with me.

I finally received my luggage 24 hours later and everything got back to normal…