Sherwood Forrest

We took a plane from Bahrain to Doncaster, England. The airport name there is Robin Hood Airport. The famous Sherwood Forrest is about 20 miles west of the airport. Sorry can't download pictures yet but I will as soon as I can.

We then took a cab ride across the English countryside to Manchester, England.

We got to the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the airport. And guess what....

Yep........No resveration.......again......none of us........

Get me a manager.....get me a cell phone......get me a room !!!!!!!

Found out after about 10 minutes of talking to scheduling and hotel personnel. We were given confirmation numbers (each his own), but the name on the confirmation was the same name, and not anyone we knew. Some Chinese name. Then when the captain was signing the paper to get our rooms with this Chinese persons name on it, he realized than the name was of Hy, one of our schedulers. She had made the reservations okay, but under HER name. AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!

We leave in the morning for Shannon, Ireland, where we will pickup a plane on Sunday and fly it back to Newark, NJ, USA.

And just in time for me to get my laundry done, and not too soon either. LOL...

Bahrain

Got into Bahrain this morning. Went to the Sheraton, and guess what?........

"Sorry Mr, Twente, but we don't have a resveration for you and we are out of rooms". We have a room for your First Officer, but none for you.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Not again!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay get me a manager! Get me my cell phone! Get me a ROOM!!!!!!!

Manager comes over and sees me steaming, and presto-chango.... I get a room.

Flew all night. Was up most of the day. And I have to leave in 18 hours.

Leave at about 4 am tomorrow for Sheiffeld, England.

Oh yes, did I mention they changed my trips again?

Liege, Belgium Day 3

Should be leaving late tonight for Bahrain. Still some confusion about who is going to operate as Flight Engineer on the flight. Another FE insists that it is a trip on his line, but scheduling assures me that it is not his trip. So we'll see what happens. They are trying to get me back into position so that I can rejoin my December line as awarded.

Stay tune....

Liege, Belgium Day 2

Scheduling called last night. We are leaving tomorrow at about 2:00 pm for Bahrain and then on to Dubai. ( Get out your world atlas or google Mid-East).

That's about it for now.

Later.....

Liege, Belgium

We made it into Liege (Lee-age), at about 7:00 pm local. Now we are just waiting for scheduling to give us another trip. My schedule says that I am supposed to fly tomorrow from here to Bahrain. But that is up in the air as of now.

More later....

New York, New York...

Got into Newark last night. Woke up this morning to about 1 inch of snow on the ground here!

Scheduled to leave tonight @ 8:00 pm local time for Liege, Belgium (EBLG). Then tomorrow we fly from EBLG to OBBI ( Bahrain ).

That's about all for now.

Basement wall Part III

The basement repair crew finished yesterday at about 1:30 pm. They got here at 7:00 am. Now they tell me that I can't finish my wall in the stairwell to the basement, because in 3 weeks someone will be out to torque up the rods. So the wall repair going down stairs will have to wait until I get back from this months flying.

Speaking of...

I will be leaving tonight for Newark, NJ. Thru Charlotte, NC. 6 hours for a 2.5 hour flight. American Airlines wants $700.00 for a ticket and this flight on US Airways runs $350.00. So, I get to spend an extra 3.5 hours traveling to save the company some $$$$$.