The Trip and How Nothing Went as Planned

My trip began by leaving my home at 7am on Wednesday morning.  Mom dropped me off at the airport in Edmonton and I flew to Calgary where I had a nine hour lay over, yeah it was long, but it was good since I got to have lunch with Allie and hang out with Adam.  Then the adventure began, the flight from Calgary to London was delayed three hours in Calgary.  We were all boarded and then they saw that a panel was missing from the plane so they had to call London to see if they could fly without it, long story short they couldn't so it took more time attaching a different panel on.  

Finally got to London and had a four hour lay over there where I was trying to contact the lady in France to tell her I had been delayed and couldn't get a hold of her.  In future it's a good idea to look up how to call foreign numbers before you get to the place and don't have internet access...

I got to Toulouse at eleven at night and tried sleeping in the airport since I figured I might as well since it was only 8 hours until my train was leaving.  A guy cleaning floors came and asked me if I was staying all night and showed me better place to sleep, which I thought was very kind.  You know a couple years back I would've felt very uncomfortable doing this, but now I was totally fine.

At like 4 in the morning I was done with trying to sleep (turns out that although luggage full of clothes looks like it would make a fine bed, it really doesn't) so I decided to figure out how the shuttle to the train station worked.  It said that it only started at 7:30am which was frustrating since I thought it started at 5 and at this point I had barely slept two nights in a row and was done with travelling.  So I decided to call a taxi, while trying to do this I talked to a lady who offered to drive me, which was very kind.  However, on our way out we ended up passing the shuttle and I was the only one on it.  The bus driver was very kind and we chatted all the way to the station.

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I caught the 6:18 train and the lady let me use my ticket from the day before with no extra charge, also very nice.  When I finally got to Rodez it was 8:30 am on Friday.  So in total I think I was travelling for 41-42 hours.

But it all worked out and I feel more confident in my travelling abilities :)