We should have departed yesterday. Should have – and we didn't. We started our trip to the Venice airport well in time, but 30 km before the destination we got into a 6-hours traffic jam because of a truck accident. The rumors told about a chemical leakage. Ineffective Italian highway personnel didn’t arrange a detour, neither a proper communication. We simply just drove into a traffic jam and were soon surrounded by kilometers of local natives. Even though we tried to walk, hitchhike and patiently wait, we couldn’t make it at the end. We arrived to the airport just to see the plane in the air. What a disappointment!!! We were completely down and angry about the inefficiency and ignorance at the highway and in the airport. At 8pm almost all offices were closed and nowhere to get information. Our hope to reach Brazil was almost drowned in tears and despair.
We were disappointed and exhausted on the way back to Ljubljana and cursed the supposedly Italian way of managing things.
Next day we woke up with blank heads. It was unbelievable to think that our adventure had finished before it eventually started. In hope for a promising solution, we went to the travel agency, where we had bought the flight tickets. And here we announce that the helpful agent at the Kompas agency managed to arrange new flight tickets!!! They were very helpful and professional and created a solution with Swiss Air, who had had more customers lost in the same traffic jam. We’re sending some thoughts for those others. Kompas found us a new flight 2 days later without complicating and with very small additional cost. And now we are happy and full of adrenalin again. We only hope that the Slovene proverb “the third time it the successful one” doesn’t hold for our situation and we will be in Brazil already next time we try, the 17th of June.
