Its already begun...
I've got less than 2 months before I embark on my 3rd overseas trip to Europe. I've been looking forward to this for so long! No overseas trips in 2006, save all my leave for one big perfect holiday. There was plenty of stress and lots of money spent, but its all done and I'm ready for my trip.
Today, my workmate asked me when I was going on my holiday. Then I started discussing about where I was going, what the plans were etc etc. And how I am SO OVER looking through travel books. Ever since we booked the last thing needed, I haven't looked at anything related to the trip. I needed a break from it all.
So as I was rushing home from work today, I walked past Flight Centre and saw my travel agent, poor Jessica, sitting at her desk. I thought, what a perfect time to go remind her I need to pick up my tickets soon!
As I walked towards the shop, her eyes looked up and saw me, then practically popped out of the sockets.
Jessica: "Oh my gosh! Just the person I want to see!!"
Me: (Thinking she was being sarcastic) "Are you sure about that??"
Jessica: "You must be psychic! I was just thinking about you! I've got news for you"
Me: "Its bad isn't it......?"
Jessica:"Unfortunately yes.......I just got a fax and your tour has been cancelled...."
Me: "Oh. Ok."
I wasn't even SHOCKED. I didn't yell. I didn't cry. I didn't kick up a fuss. Infact, Jessica was more upset than me! (But I think that was partly due to the fact that she knows she has to see me more often again!!) And its like I KNEW something like this would happen. And I don't think anyone who knows me will be shocked by this news either. I know me + Moishii = Bad News. But come on. This is ridiculous!
Before I booked the tour, I called up the tour company and asked what is the likelihood of the tour being cancelled, and would I be better off taking the next tour (Which departs 7 days later) that is guaranteed to run no matter what. The answer I got was this:
"To be honest, this is our most popular Italy tour and has run every year. In fact, in the history of running this tour, it has NEVER been cancelled before."
*Sigh* When it comes to us, history means jack all. Now its back to the drawing board. To make things worse, that was the perfect tour. Not only did it take us to every place we wanted to see, but it also operated in the opposite direction of EVERY SINGLE OTHER TOUR across all the companies. And it worked perfectly for us because it allowed us to leave the tour early and do the other cities we're both dying to go to. THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT TOUR! ARGH. I need to do some research and stress some more.
I'm not overseas yet and its already begun.....all bets are off for this year......
Today, my workmate asked me when I was going on my holiday. Then I started discussing about where I was going, what the plans were etc etc. And how I am SO OVER looking through travel books. Ever since we booked the last thing needed, I haven't looked at anything related to the trip. I needed a break from it all.
So as I was rushing home from work today, I walked past Flight Centre and saw my travel agent, poor Jessica, sitting at her desk. I thought, what a perfect time to go remind her I need to pick up my tickets soon!
As I walked towards the shop, her eyes looked up and saw me, then practically popped out of the sockets.
Jessica: "Oh my gosh! Just the person I want to see!!"
Me: (Thinking she was being sarcastic) "Are you sure about that??"
Jessica: "You must be psychic! I was just thinking about you! I've got news for you"
Me: "Its bad isn't it......?"
Jessica:"Unfortunately yes.......I just got a fax and your tour has been cancelled...."
Me: "Oh. Ok."
I wasn't even SHOCKED. I didn't yell. I didn't cry. I didn't kick up a fuss. Infact, Jessica was more upset than me! (But I think that was partly due to the fact that she knows she has to see me more often again!!) And its like I KNEW something like this would happen. And I don't think anyone who knows me will be shocked by this news either. I know me + Moishii = Bad News. But come on. This is ridiculous!
Before I booked the tour, I called up the tour company and asked what is the likelihood of the tour being cancelled, and would I be better off taking the next tour (Which departs 7 days later) that is guaranteed to run no matter what. The answer I got was this:
"To be honest, this is our most popular Italy tour and has run every year. In fact, in the history of running this tour, it has NEVER been cancelled before."
*Sigh* When it comes to us, history means jack all. Now its back to the drawing board. To make things worse, that was the perfect tour. Not only did it take us to every place we wanted to see, but it also operated in the opposite direction of EVERY SINGLE OTHER TOUR across all the companies. And it worked perfectly for us because it allowed us to leave the tour early and do the other cities we're both dying to go to. THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT TOUR! ARGH. I need to do some research and stress some more.
I'm not overseas yet and its already begun.....all bets are off for this year......
5 comments:
lol they're so scared of you & NV that they decided to cancel the tour :P
I read it and i wasnt suprised with the cancellation...the only shock is that they cancelled it before you were in the country!!!
It will work out for you and E...even if its going to cost you more to do different tours to cover all the places you want to go.
Well, the only suitable tour I've found right now leaves out southern italy and sicily. Either way, theres no way we can do everything we want since all other airfares have been booked and cannot be changed.
Its gonna take a lot of juggling. And I've accepted that my plan of visiting all of Italy so we can get closure and not have to go back to Italy for a very long time is now foiled. But you wouldn't expect any less from me anyway.
If you go on that tour - that leaves out Sth Italy and Sicily, can you do another tour to cover those places? Do you have spare days to use and visit those places on your own?
We've managed to reorganise everything (Or a plan to reorganise everything) that will allow us to do northern and southern italy, with the exception of Sicily.
I've accepted the fact that we're not getting closure and we will need to go back to Italy eventually........
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