Tales of a Trainee American

Yeah, I've been in Rome the past week. My luggage only made it there for just over a day - thanks, British Airways. Frankly I thought I'd seen/heard/had enough warning of the types of enormous cock-ups to expect from Terminal 5, but this was a pretty good one: they put some early bags from the next flight onto our flight, at the expense of some of the bags that were supposed to be on our flight. It took them the best part of a week to get most of them to Rome, but not all of them, from what I gather of talking to other passengers on the same flight.

I've not started looking at compensation options. I'm pretty sure my travel insurance will only get me £75 for delayed bags (just got 'em late, nothing damaged/destroyed/missing...). Given I spent €250 on clothes (Rome ain't a cheap city to have no luggage in - especially when your girth is not that of yer typical Roman!) not to mention replacing other stuff that was there like nappies, bottle cleaning kit, the Blue Guide, etc. All in all I reckon I probably forked out €400 that I wouldn't have if I'd actually had my bags. As it was I was glad of having packed at least a change of clothes in my hand luggage (which I always do), so I was only wearing each pair of boxers on alternate days....

I guess a full write-up will come at some point. I've started uploading the numerous photographs that were taken, and tagging and describing and organising them. They're on flickr.