Luck. It plays a major part in our everyday life and sometimes you get a good streak without even noticing it, and then you get the flip side. Well this year seems to have dealt us more of the flip side than usual, but, at least that gives us time to reflect and realise that by all accounts we’ve had a pretty good run up until now.
After the collapse of zeda and while I was employed by TESL, Suzie booked to go to Copenhagen with 2 girlfriends in early December. Then TESL decided to dispense with my services just days before our family holiday to Lanzarotte. We went anyway, and just as well because we really needed that thinking time away from our normal surroundings. We’d not been back long when XL Airlines went bust, notable because we’d flown with them and thought very highly of them and their service.
Some time later Suzie got a notification that the airline she’d booked the Copenhagen trip with would cease flying from East Midlands Airport but they offered her an alternative flight from Gatwick. So the girls duly switched to that flight and purchased rail tickets to Gatwick. Then that operator too went bust. Travel insurance and credit card provider were contacted and the former paid out their bit and the latter has promised to pay out their bit (but have yet to do so).
The girls got their heads together and found a weekend break to Venice for the same dates and roughly the same cost per head. They are due to fly out on Friday this week, but, what was the national news about 2 nights ago? Flooding in Venice. The hotel they are due to stay in has been contacted and they report no flooding and business as usual. So the girls are still going but packing welly boots “just in case”.
Do this mean our luck is changing for the better? I’ll hold back judgement on that until after the girls return from their mini adventure.
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