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What
happened today:
Most of the team has well arrived
at home, but today is "Murphy's day". At least he
waited until the contest was over:
Murphy 1:
Victims: DL3DXX, DL3NCI, CN8LN (the bus drivers)
The transporter was passing the Moroccan customs well and made
it with the ferry over to Algeciras (Spain, i.e. EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY !!!). The Spanish customs stopped the transporter,
said there was something wrong with the customs papers, locked
away the papers and car registration, and told the crew that
they would have to wait until 08:30 the next morning, when the
head officer of the customs bureau would come back. The head
officer came in the morning, looked on the papers, found
everything OK, and five minutes later the transporter was on the
road again !!!
Murphy 2:
Victim: DL6FBL
04:45 I get up in my Casablanca hotel
and jump on a train to Casablanca airport.
06:00 At the airport I find out that
the ground personnel is on strike. The flight companies do the
check-in themselves, which takes two hours longer.
09:30 Already two hours late the plane
is ready to leave. But now they couldn't get a time slot to land
in Amsterdam (Holland) for the stop-over. So we had to wait for
another one-and-a-half hours on the ground and in the plane
before we would leave Casablanca.
14:00 Approaching the Amsterdam area we
have to learn that the airport had been closed because of heavy
winds. We circle for half an hour.
15:00 We finally landed on
Maastricht/Aachen airport in the Belgium/Holland/Germany
triangle. This is just a small airport with only a few daily
flights. From Maastricht they want to take us to Amsterdam with
buses (3-4 hours) for eventual connecting flights - but that is
the wrong heading for my final destination (near
Frankfurt/Germany).
16:00 I have enough and leave that
circus, take a taxi to Aachen train station, jump on three
different trains in a row and arrive home at:
23:56 What a fine day !!!
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