A Not So Dream Travel Day

5 cities, 4 countries, 1 day… sounds like a dream travel day!

But delayed flights, missed connections, running through airports, aborted take-offs, emergency checks to landing gear and rough landings in the wind, rain and snow meant it was more of a nightmare!

Still, travel is an adventure and the day certainly felt like that! Not sure the photos are my most scenic though!

Sat at the gate for over an hour after an aborted take-off and the landing gear being checked out

Rushing through Charles de Gaulle airport, just enough time to stop for a pic!

The airport in Paris is one of the fanciest I've been to... shame my layer o etc was only 20 minutes rather than the scheduled 3 hours!

Finally some tea on the last leg of the journey to Manchester!

Starting the day in Dusseldorf after having left Essen... there wasn't much of a view from my favoured window seat!

Despite the first delay, the first flight was almost like having a private jet!

Missed my connection in Amsterdam so change to itinerary... not quite the route home I had planned!

Sat at the gate for over an hour after an aborted take-off and the landing gear being checked out

Rushing through Charles de Gaulle airport, just enough time to stop for a pic!

The airport in Paris is one of the fanciest I've been to... shame my layer o etc was only 20 minutes rather than the scheduled 3 hours!

Finally some tea on the last leg of the journey to Manchester!

Starting the day in Dusseldorf after having left Essen... there wasn't much of a view from my favoured window seat!

Despite the first delay, the first flight was almost like having a private jet!

Missed my connection in Amsterdam so change to itinerary... not quite the route home I had planned!

Sat at the gate for over an hour after an aborted take-off and the landing gear being checked out