Sunday 28 June 2026 - Remain-i-Ere

Here's the view from tonight's room at the Ramada Hotel, Bucharest.

Here's last night's excellent room at Schuster Boarding House in Brasov. A 'Boutique' hotel.

And here's the Boarding House after we left at around 11am this morning.

We were efficiently driven to the airport by 2pm, in plenty of time for our 6pm flight to Amsterdam. 

A thank you message was sent to Maria and the staff at Collett's who have looked after us on this trip, and their job was done. Thank you.

After lunch at the airport our phones started to buzz with messages from KLM, who claimed our flight from Amsterdam to Manchester had been cancelled. It may have been. We then got messages claiming our flight from Bucharest to Amsterdam had been cancelled. As we had boarding cards and were standing next to people checking in for the flight, this was patently untrue. Perhaps it is cheaper to put us up in Bucharest than in Amsterdam. Anyway, cutting a longer but fairly boring story short, a taxi eventually brought us here to an acceptable room with a view of the airport.

We are second class citizens relegated to the 'naughty corner' of the restaurant where we are not allowed to choose from the menu and are given soup and chicken kebabs and made to pay for our beer.

Hopefully we will get home tomorrow, but the chap coming from far away in the morning to service our alarm will be disappointed to find nobody at home.