Recently, I had to wait nearly 1 week for a flight. So we were flying back to south of Portugal the from an airport called Faroe. Um, probably mispronouncing that. Apologies for any Portuguese audience and the people, but what happened was our flight was at 8 PM from Portugal back to Belfast and at 10 to 8. So 10 minutes before the flight was about to take off. I got a message saying that the flight was canceled with no explanation at all. I think it was the French traffic controllers So thanks very much for that. And what happened in the immediate aftermath was we just said, okay. No problem. We went to a hotel, and it was actually a bonus because we went to a little town in Portugal. That we would never normally go to, and it was amazing because we got to see the real photograph they had a fresh market and a vegetable market there right beside the water. So it was just nice to go and shop with the locals and have coffee with the locals. So it was a high actually blessing and disguise. Later that day, we needed to decide either we have to get a taxi to Spain because there were no flights available that day from Portugal to Belfast or take a for an exercise just to postpone the capital, just wait next available site, which was 5 days away. So we decided to do that because when we added up all the cost, it was actually cheaper just to day and extra five days. And that was an amazing experience because we went back to the same resort that we stayed in. And because Easter had passed, it was basically just us in the result. So we got nor just 5 star service, 6 star service. And it was really quiet and beautiful. In having our flight cancelled, was an amazing experience.
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Recently, I had to wait nearly 1 week for a flight. So we were flying back to the south of Portugal from an airport called Faro. Um, probably mispronouncing that. Apologies for any Portuguese audience and the people, but what happened was our flight was at 8 PM from Portugal back to Belfast and at 10 to 8, so 10 minutes before the flight was about to take off, I got a message saying that the flight was canceled with no explanation at all. I think it was the French air traffic controllers. So thanks very much for that. And what happened in the immediate aftermath was we just said, okay, no problem. We went to a hotel, and it was actually a bonus because we went to a little town in Portugal that we would never normally go to, and it was amazing because we got to see the real Portugal. They had a fresh market and a vegetable market there right beside the water. So it was just nice to go and shop with the locals and have coffee with the locals. So it was actually a blessing in disguise. Later that day, we needed to decide either we have to get a taxi to Spain because there were no flights available that day from Portugal to Belfast or take a ferry to Northern Ireland just to postpone the travel, just wait for the next available flight, which was 5 days away. So we decided to do that because when we added up all the costs, it was actually cheaper just to stay an extra five days. And that was an amazing experience because we went back to the same resort that we stayed in. And because Easter had passed, it was basically just us in the resort. So we got not just 5-star service, but 6-star service. And it was really quiet and beautiful. Having our flight canceled was an amazing experience.
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