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Ryanair leaves passengers stranded in Alghero
While Ryanair was offering one of its planes to airlift XL Leisure holidaymakers home to the UK, it was leaving hundreds of its own passengers stranded at the airport in Alghero, Sardinia, overnight Friday after a violent storm made the airport inoperable. The town, including the airport, was hit by wind gusts of 140km an hour and torrential rain …
Italia, Italia, Italia!
... Alghero however being the last flight of the night, I suppose the Ryanair staff were extra tired because we touched down in Alghero not 45 minutes later! So Ryanair experience number 1 was smooth and extremely efficient!
First sights of the beautiful Italian island were unfortunately during the night time, but we checked in at our Bed and Breakfast located right along Via Lido (Beach Street) facing west over the Mediterranean Sea. We had an incredible ...
Seein' Sardinia
... dark glasses all evening. I mention to Helen that not only is the food good at Pizza Garibaldi, but the locals have been interesting entertainment and facilitated some blog material. “Oh dear” sighs Helen, “more innocents about to be consigned to the eternal ether”. Or should that be ‘ethereal eternity’?
Unlike most cities, towns and villages we have visited, parking is easy – and free - at ...
The itlalian black stallion
... experience. Also I become increasing aware of my similarities in personality w/ the hands on, food obsessed, loud chatting, strolling folk of the Mediterranean. After frisbee and cocktails we strolled the old city wall looking for a nice place for a bite. one of the many great things about traveling in the off season, as I'm always finding myself ...
Relaxing Beach Vacation....Almost
... two little kids, a bunch of luggage and no idea where to go. We knew our hotel was on the beach, so (after having a mini-breakdown) we started walking towards the coast. When we got to a stop light we tried to figure out where we were on our map that I grabbed from the Tourist Office in the airport. A young Italian woman with a couple kids was nice enough to stop and ask if we needed help. She pointed us in the correct direction and soon we found our ...