Getting to Amsterdam via Belfast!

During the week I decided it would be great to go to Amsterdam, y’know, to see the tulips and what not. Aer Arann now do flights out of Waterford airport direct to Amsterdam… but we’re flying from Belfast instead because the got them for dirt cheap and I didn’t complain because I wasn’t the one driving!

We left at 9pm and made it up to Belfast for 1am, in plenty time for our flight. Unfortunately we have a bit too much time on our hands and we find ourselves in an empty airport 5 hours before check in opens! It was beginning to seem a bit like Dawn of the Dead until people started showing up! The first sign of life was watching two porters having a wheelchair fight!

I spotted a Bank of Ireland ATM up here so I decided to take out some money here as I’m not sure my card works abroad. Here is where fatique becomes apparent because I simply assumed that because I was at a Bank of Ireland ATM, I was in Ireland! A naive assumption it was because I soon realised that I had just selected £200 in sterling!

In the middle of an empty airport with nothing to keep me occupied, I took my new found wad of crisp £20 notes and went straight into an arcade to try spin it up. I won £5, but that was after putting £20 into it! I’m such a degen!

Thankfully I’ve found Wifi which should keep me entertained until check in opens in a few hours. The only minor gripe I have about it is that I have to keep searching for signal by walking around holding my laptop open. This isn’t a problem now, because the place is empty and I could probably take off my clothes and start thinking about what’s going to happen in Amsterdam!

I’ll keep you updated!