Earlier this week I went to Amsterdam for business. It turned out to be quite an adventure.
First of all, British Airways cancelled the flight and the staff suggested us to take a later flight to Rotterdam instead which is an adjacent city approximately an hour train ride away. She later announced that only the first 17 passengers could get on that flight which caused a bit of a commotion. Fortunately for someone grew up in a big city like Hong Kong, I was able to “position” myself at the number 14 on the queue, to be exact.
The Rotterdam flight was delayed for an hour. When I got out of the Rotterdam airport, it was 10:30pm local time. There was a long queue for taxi with no taxi in sight. I noticed that a few fellow passengers heading to a bus stop to the Rotterdam train station and followed them. I ran for my life to get on the last train to Amsterdam train station with 2 minutes to spare :s. To make the long story short (or short story long), I got to the hotel at 12:30am and the hotel reception was shocked to see me arrive at such an “early” hour. She said you had been upgraded to a bigger room and I later found out that it was a big “ex-smoking” room with strong residual smell of cigarette.
Well, life is filled with adventure, big or small and this is one of those :>