UA, get your act together please!
My 2 legs to SJU (Puerto Rico) cleared together right on time at T-100 before the first flight.
Actually, compared to UA, the second flight cleared early since UA potentially clears at T-96 for each individual leg. When the process works, that is. Which it hasn’t well nor consistently since 3/3 merger with CO.
(Times are for EXP and 1K status, resp)
Heard on TTC subway pa system today: “sir, you can stop bothering my passengers for money or you can get off at the next station”
Sweet!
A classical Chinese garden in Vancouver BC. Entry fee. I didn’t make it there but ran across it in a top20 list.
…late afternoon for our late lunch on rue Cler.
And fully sunny today. Apparently it’s been 3 weeks of bad weather here.
In the lounge in CDG airport, about to fly back (in biz). Sweet. Especially after the priority checking, emigration and security.
Actually the rain wasn’t bad yesterday, as the showers hit mostly during the night. But it’s cool, with a high of 21C/70F and people are dressed like it’s autumn (and it feels like it too).
We walked around a bit and enjoyed a late lunch out and about. Dinner was wine and cheese (inc. a tasty brie that makes the brie back home taste like Wonderbread in comparison) in the room.
The rain is supposed to stop late the afternoon, and the sun should come out again on Sunday in time to send us off.
We both did a fish pedicure today. The fish nibble the dead skin. It feels like a tickling, weak electric current. Not allowed in Canada for hygienic reasons.
After a delightful breakfast we did scenic a one-hour round-the-island boat trip, then relaxed in the sun on the balcony, and rented a scooter to see Anacapri (including taking a chairlift to the top of Mt Solera) and the lighthouse (and crashing waves) at the southwest point of the island.
More and photos details to follow.
The service and food were significantly better on the Air France flight (biz class) yesterday.
Staying in the Marais in the 4th arrondissement. Walked to dinner at a patio table on a cute little square, followed by a long walk through the 4th and back along the Seine.
Through Place des Vosges, and past, or views of, Pompidou, Les Balled, Eiffel Tower (lit up) and Notre Dame.
Also got to see the outside of the building where Susan used to live.
And some of the tour boats on the river have floodlights (to illuminate buildings) that would put stadiums to shame.
This morning we grabbed a taxi to the port (€12 booked through our hotel) and then a 35 minute jet boat ferry to Capri (€16 each, + €2 for large luggage).
Our hotel on Marina Grande, right by the port, is a very nice 4* hotel, probably the nicest of the 4 hotels. With a great view of the harbour, the Bay of Naples and even Mt Vesuvius in the distance.
Right outside our door we have the ferries, a bus stand, a taxi stand, the funicular station and a scooter rental place. So many options!
We did the Blue Grotto tour by boat (photo below; more details later) which was brief (in the grotto) but memorable.
Capri Town is up on the hill – a pedestrian centre with mostly expensive shops and restaurants.
For the 3rd time we rented a scooter, this time in Sorrento (only €37) and drove west to the end of the peninsula and into the hill towns just east of Sorrento (for a total of about 100km).
After some sketchy looking dark clouds this morning, it turned out to be quite a nice day starting from 10:30.
Some great scenery and good food and views (inc. of Capri).
Followed by dinner and some shopping in Sorrento.
Tomorrow we plan on seeing Pompeii and Naples, and we changed our plans such that we will be spending our last 2 nights in Italy on Capri.