Trieste; Thursday, 07 August, 2014

A final Italian breakfast consumed and then it was time to check-out and head over to the bus station to catch the bus out to Friuli-Venezia Giulia Airport to start an almost day long journey to cover just a couple of hundred miles.

When I got to the airport I had a quick check with the ticket office to see if there was any chance of getting the second leg of my flight brought forward so I didn’t have to spend most of the day in transit, but it was to no avail as they said my ticket was unchangeable.

The airport only has a handful of flights a day, and mine was the last departure before a five hour siesta through the middle of the day, so everyone was very efficient in ensuring we were on the plane and taking off early.

A short flight later and we landed at Munich airport, where the plane spent about 15 minutes wandering around the airfield before finally finding a parking space.

And so began five entirely uneventful and utterly tedious hours in transit before the second leg of the flight out to Budapest departed.