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14th September
Departure from Malta

This day is the day of travelling. I must admit it started out quite well upon seeing the efficiency of Air Malta’s new feature – Web Check-in. Everything’s going online now. The check-in is mostly done on the web, choosing the seats yourself, printing the boarding tickets yourself, (or better, “tickets”, as it is a little unusual to see boarding tickets on a piece of normal paper, black and white), and no needs to wait in long queues at the airport. What can I say? Air Malta is a serious company.

Air Malta took us to Vienna in Austria, were we had to wait for about three or four hours before our next plane leaves to Salzburg. After careful analysis and exhaustive thinking, we decided to remain at the airport before the next flight. At that, I chose to take a look at some cameras, in hopes of finding one that is relatively good and that’s not any more expensive than €200...it turned out that the cheapest one was €235. Pity.

Past those four hours, we headed for the next plane, which was a propeller plane. During the course on this plane, I can say that I have learned something. Air hostesses offering hot coffee during a flight on such a plane have a good sense of humour. It must have been the laugh of the day watching my mum spilling coffee all over her (logically, due to the shakiness of the plane). I’m also assuming that the pilot was just dumped by his girlfriend. You’d understand if you experienced the landing yourselves, or if you had the honour (which I had) of seeing the aircraft’s wheel smashing onto the ground.

Finally we arrived in Salzburg. It was a strange feeling after having been swimming just the day before, and now shivering in the cold. It must have been around 11°C at that time (in contrast to the 30°C and higher in Malta). After 50 minutes on the taxi, we arrived at our dear Alpenland Sport Hotel, at around 11:30pm. We thought our room was 137, and we spent about 10 minutes inserting the card repeatedly, each time being rejected. In fact, it was not our room. I can imagine the people inside there, shivering in fear after hearing weird noises at the door at that time of the night. But anyhow, we then made it into our (correct) room, and had a good night sleep.