We had breakfast, cleaned up then return the cottage to Alexandra. Said good bye to it and SR2 as we headed back to Florence. The drive wasn't bad, our Fiat did its best to hold its own. The Googlemap lady got us right to the car return area. Then the Italian attendant wanted to put some bogus bumper scrapping charge on me. I was furious. I was telling the guy the scratches, even minor were not ID'ed when we picked up the car so it could have been there when we got it. I was screaming at him and was not going to back down.Then a Norwegian, out of the blue, next to us said aloud that his car was not given an out going inspection either. Bolstered by my new ally, I stepped up the offense, and the Italian troublemaker relented and didn't write anything on me. I.Did.Not.Cause.It.
We got to the shuttle and the terminal smoothly. Then things went FUBAR.
SwissAir was the carrier to fly us to Zurich. We could not get them to take our money online to check luggage. So at check in we had to pay. But the agent did not take money transactions. We had to pay at another counter and needed to get a receipt for her. Off we went to wait at this other cashier counter. After waiting a long time, we got up to the counter and were told they only took cash.
WTF cashier place only took cash?
We raced down one level to the ATM, waited to get to the kiosk to get our money. We ran back up and paid the Cash-Only lady. Got our receipt and had to go back to SwissAir to show the agent so she could check off a box so our luggage would get to our destination. Everything was finally squared away, we got lunch, then meandered to the gate and waited.
There were a million people at the gate area. We hunkered and waited for our call, as we had no status at all. Finally we got on the bus to ride to the plane on the tarmac. It was hot inside and fumes of gasoline was overwhelming. I thought S was going to lose it, but the bus soon started to move, and we got to our plane and our seat.
Once airborne, S was fine. They served Movenpick ice cream and she ate both hers and mine. :)
Yum !!!
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