Booking a is supposed to be a stress reliver. But, for me, it only heightens my blood pressure to levels that I think would make me into a medical marvel. That's because for my last four holidays, I've been riddled with travel miseries one after the other.
As the saying goes 'once an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern', so who knows what four times means? However, I'm going to predict that the next line is 'four times a curse' because after my experience it feels like my dream getaways are more like nightmares. Curse? What curse? Let me fill you in..
.so far, a threatened to cancel my flight to Lisbon last October, my trip to Boston was hanging on by a thread due to the i and my sun-seeking in Cyprus was delayed by hours because of the . So, what now? Well, it's just the - penned the 'biggest in history' - that is threatening to bodge my trip to the Netherlands tomorrow.
It's already looking like utter airport mayhem is on the cards and I've only got 20 hours to go. In an age of everything being done digitally, I enjoy the fruits of an online check-in. It often proves to make a swift journey through the airport so I have time for a glass of Wetherspoons bubbly before my flight.
However, Ryanair announced they've been struck down along with the major Microsoft outage that's affecting anything from transport to hospitals. When I went to check-in for my flight I realised that I couldn't do it and it was possibly just a fault with my phone. Just my luck, the trav.