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Back in Ireland.
Getting home was a bit tense.
Flight from Turkey was delayed, but since we had a huge tailwind we landed in Frankfurt basically on time. Passport control was then oddly at the bottom of the steps getting off the back of the plane, while we had sat near the front to get connections. It was eerily foggy in Frankfurt. Left Marcus to go his way and I went to my gate. There was only the people for our flight around so it was eerily empty. Then a series of announcements occurred:
"Due to bad weather in Frankfurt this flight will be delayed for 20 minutes until 10pm"...
"Due to continuing bad weather and since we have missed our slot this flight will be delayed until 11pm, please note that the last flight that can take off from Frankfurt is 11pm"...
At 21:30
"Boarding will go ahead as normal and start now but the flight is still delayed until 11pm"
So we got on the plane and sat there for an hour. We were the last place to take off from Frankfurt at 10:58. Close one.
Upon arriving in Dublin Conor called me as I walked through baggage collection and I just went straight through. Then had to spend a further 30 minutes farting around trying to get back in to collect my bag, which I did manage but I wasn't home until 1am.