Daily Archives: Friday, 15 December, 2006

To combine business with pleasure I go to the other side of the Netherlands to visit some friends. My best friend Marijn had planned to go to a music festival and drags me along. This is the first time in many, many years that I attend a live concert and I immediately know why. Even though I was wearing earplugs it was very loud. I can’t envision the hearing damage people must have suffered who didn’t wear earplugs. Very late to bed, so my jet-lag gets pampered well.

I finally booked my flight today, and will be flying home on Christmas morning and will arrive just in time for the turkey. I probably won’t eat the turkey, but at least I’ll be there.
Finding a flight was not easy. It’s the holiday season right now and flights are full and prices high. So instead of my usual route, flying with British Airways from Amsterdam over Heathrow, I’ll be flying from D¸sseldorf in Germany via Paris with Air France. That was about 200 euro (300 CAD) cheaper. Strange thing was that if I booked the flight on the German site of Air France, the exact same flight was 50 euro more expensive. And if I would have flown from Paris, and not from Germany, I would have paid even more.
Welcome to the strange world of airfares.