We have formulated a plan of attack to deal with the lost luggage. As for clothing is concerned I am at crisis point. I have now determined that my Amex travel insurance will cover expenses of necessities. First thing tomorrow I will buy socks and shirts... I, and the team, have left Australia about 5 days ago and we are still wearing the same!!!
Many calls to British Airways luggage people has come to this. They have no idea at which point you can claim damages from them but that it is 'reasonable' in their eyes to have 2-5 days delays in luggage because it is peak season!!! Personally I disagree with that statement. We were invited to come to the airport after 3pm tomorrow to check the unsorted lost luggage at the airport to see if we can see our bags! I trust we will find them. British Airways has rented 180 meters squared space to store it all in!!! David got his bags, I got my medicine bag, we are confident the rest of our gear is there. Lets hope so!
So instead of testing out our camping gear tomorrow we have nothing to camp with and we had to find a hotel. The hotel we are in now is too expensive to just renew, so I got on the internet and found us another great deal elsewhere. Tomorrow morning we will change hotel. Hotels in Amsterdam are not cheap, and we wished we could camp for the night and check our gear...
This does mean we will get a chance to be tourists and take a canal cruise tomorrow. Although I have done that a few times in my life the rest of the crew is excited about that prospect! Hopefully we will find our luggage in the afternoon and go to Paris the next day. In the event our luggage is not there we will need to buy new tents, sleeping bags, and high tech equipment for our filming (wireless cameras, hard disk storage, cables, wires, and cycle clothing.
Most annoying is the large amount of awesome Patagonia gear that was given to us by Patagonia may be lost! That will probably be the single greatest loss as I am carrying the gear for Heather and Lucas and the spare pieces too. Big money, big loss... Lets hope we find our gear in the 180 m2 space of British Airways at the airport tomorrow!
We also have another slight complication, Heather's mother was struck ill by for unknown reasons. Heather has delayed her flight by a day to be there for her mum. We all wish her all the best and are thinking of them.
Well, this is all good stuff for the documentary I suppose!
Walter-----
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3 comments:
Husband I hope that you have turned your undies inside out at least! It was good to here you and to know that you are well...everything else can be replaced. Good thing there is lots of overtime at work! Lots of love, your wife and the puss!
Walter and Team,
This is sounding like a particularly chaotic episode of Airline or Airport -take your pick!
You have to run the gauntlet of Airline baggage handlers again to get to Paris for the start of la COFE!
Best of luck!
Oh dear!! Well at least Troy had a spare pair!! he can just wash his in the sink, but the chargers for all the cameras etc were in troy's bag (I hope you have you phone one on you??)
Well when you go to the airport to look, can you hunt for any unclaimed size 10 clothing?? haha
Hope you guys get some luck soon, lucky you have a few days at the end spare, you may need them.!!
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