May 4, 2024 sitting in our office at YVR

 Hmmmmmm…….I guess we should have figured out what we were going before our trip was underway? LOL. Although this does make the adventure all the more adventurous.  :-)

We were sitting near the big aquarium and had comfy chairs and a table to spread the map out on when out of the corner of my eye I spied some rapid movement!  For those of you who know me you’ll know that mice are my nemesis and so….in very short order we had moved to our gate (about 5 mins away) where we found another table we could spread out on.  

Having had our flight time bumped up by 3 hours turned out to be a gift as we’ve had all this time to be able to begin to plan a route to follow….or at least to “sort of” follow.  At this point we know we’re landing in Prague and from there we will go to Vienna and then to Bratislava and then to Budapest before heading to Ljubljana……or at least that is the general direction we are thinking will work for us that first week and a half.  As we look around at the others on our flight it appears they all already have a plan as none of them are using YVR as their office with maps and guidebooks spread out.  LOL!

The crew for our flight just arrived.  18 in total.  Looks like an organized group that is well put together so we are feeling confident that we will make it across the “pond”.

We started our budget travel already by splitting a sandwich for lunch and filling our water bottles from the fountain.  That is in our plan going forward…..we both want to try all the yummy food we’re going to be seeing and so we already committed to sharing everything rather than getting two of anything.  Although having said that…..we might have to get a second one to share if it’s too delicious not to.  

Almost time to board here so….bye for now.  


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