Carry on luggage – not so crazy
My parents are currently in Europe. I know, it was a coincidence that both families planned to go to Europe in the same year. As you can imagine, before they left we compared lots of notes. As ‘mature’ travellers (yeah, we’re the immature ones) they have quite a different itinerary and pace. Although they politely admired our Rick Steves carry on bags, they maintained they didn’t mind taking bigger suitcases and not having to cart their bags onto the plane.
Well, we are currently piecing the story together from SMS messages and emails but the gist of it is that my Mum has lost her bag. They flew from London to Paris. The airline didn’t loose the bag – another passenger picked up Mum’s bag by mistake. When he realized the mistake, he contacted my Parents (who were half way to Germany by that stage) and returned the bag to security at CDG Airport. My parents drove back to CDG to retrieve the bag but it couldn’t be located.
So my parents have resumed their trip minus all of Mum’s clothes. They will be able to buy replacement clothes and they will put in a claim of course but now they have the added hassle of trying to shop in an already busy
schedule.
I don’t want to get too smug because all our travel disasters have yet to happen. We need to wait until we get back before we can truly say that carry-on is a better way to go. In the meantime, it’s certainly sounding less crazy.
Oh! Your poor mom. I hope they get it back, even if it’s just eventually.
.-= Obi-Mom Kenobi´s last blog ..Your work here is finished, my friend. =-.
Yes, apparently she is coping well, which is great. Just goes to show the most important thing to pack is a good attitude!
Ok so update – we can stop feeling superior about carry on bags because the bag swap happened at the railway station. Apparently there was a mix up with bags because there were two bags that were black with pink tags. So note to everyone – a pink tag isn’t unique anymore. My Mum’s bag nearly went to Africa but hopefully it is on it’s way home because it appears to have disappeared from the airport.