The tour group met at the Delta counter at PDX on Friday June 20th at 10:30 a.m. (ish). After checking our bags we proceeded through security, then split up to grab some lunch before the flight. I made the most of the opportunity to hit the PDX Burgerville franchise conveniently located in Concourse D, and others made other choices. We met at our gate approximately 1 hour before our flight, and then had a bit of a wait before we finally boarded our plane (an Airbus 330) for the long flight to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
The flight was uneventful --I was not able to sleep so I took advantage of the opportunity to watch a couple of movies on the inflight entertainment system. Unfortunately I was further back in the plane than most of the tour group so I couldn't readily converse with them.
We arrived pretty much on time at 8:30 a.m. (maybe a little earlier), and found ourselves with more than 4 hours to kill. We had a bite to eat, and a lot of conversation. We were amused by the frequent warnings over the PA that particular passengers were delaying their flights and needed to show up ASAP or their baggage would be offloaded!
Finally we were able to go through (yet another) security screening and board our flight to Bucharest (this time, a KLM Boeing 737). After a roughly 2 hour flight we were landing at the Henri Coanda airport (a.k.a. Otopeni) near Bucharest. We proceeded through customs and collected our baggage, then went on to meet up with our tour guide, the delightful Alina. Alina collected us and directed us to our tour bus, ably driven by Christian. We departed the airport and drove to our hotel in the middle of Bucharest, with a short tour of some of the city sights along the way.
By the time we arrived at our hotel and checked in it was late and we were all seriously zonked, so most of us grabbed a quick bite and headed to bed. It had been an absurdly long day.
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