24 Nov

Got up at stupid o'clock to catch my 7:00 am flight, Montreal via Frankfurt.
Upon arrival at Montreal I still hadn't heard from Miche (still haven't, writing this 3 days later). Sat on hold with flight centre help desk for about 3 hrs. Extremely frustrating day. Called Lufthansa, was told to speak to my travel agent. Flight centre said lufthansa controlled all my tickets so they couldn't change anything. Girl at lufthansa desk at the airport tried to help, no joy. In the end, an Australian operator at flight centre gave me some clear answers - nothing could be changed cause of the round the world ticket restrictions, and if I just didn't show up for the Montreal > LA flight on 30 Nov it would void my flight home.
So, I booked a hotel for that night. Ended up the shittiest hotel yet... looked like a uni share-house with hand-made curtains, broken cupboards in the kitchen, light switches that didn't work, duct-tape around the windows, and a pink-tiled bathroom. At least the bed was comfortable and the pillows nice. I slept from about 5.30 pm till 2am.
In the middle of the night I made the decision to go to Mexico. I had to buy a return flight so I can be back to catch the originally booked flight to LA. So much fucking around but at least I can be with Chris and Pat and doing and seeing and eating good things instead of paying lots for hotels and feeling glum in Montreal.
Set my alarm to catch the 9am flight and went back to sleep.

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6.95 km

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