Being the ever smart travellers we had booked the 8:30am flight to be home early (5pm), but don’t really need to start your way to the airport in the middle of the night. We had barely dragged our suitcases, which did weigh significantly more than a week ago, down the slippery stairs in Alfama (no taxi has access to our street, so it’s up to Mohammed to go to the mountain) when TAP announced that the smart one is not the one rushing and our flight will depart at 9am. In airport it turned smoothly into 9:25am and already in the plane, into 10:15am. Anyway it was clear that we will not make it on our Tallinn flight.
Since we unexpectedly had more time than planned to spend in Lisbon airport, we decided to have breakfast. The choice being bread and bread, I chose some bread. With avocado and poached egg. As menu with coffee in combo. So I asked for the avocado toast menu. To also get the coffee. The lovely lady behind the counter, being in the suitable mood for this early hour, only punched in the price for the toast. I pointed out that I ordered the menu. Based on her reply in Portuguese, I understood that I should have asked for it then. Anyway, she called a dude for help from back, who cancelled the order all the while the lady furiously commented and took frowning glances at the tourist, who is not even able to ask for coffee. I finally got my toast, which just as promised had some mashed avocado spread on and topped with dried egg instead of poached egg. A bit of salt only improved the situation a little.
On the Frankfurt - Lisbon flight Lufthansa offered full menu (lasagna, dessert, caprese, chocolate), so our expectations after two hour delay were high. Once we got through the turbulences, turned out that lunch will be only served in business class, the rabble was given a stale pastel de nata and drinks.
In Frankfurt, I assumed that the Germans will quickly take care of the rebooking and in no time we will be sitting on the next flight to Tallinn. The Germans sent us where the sun doesn’t shine. Which means to the TAP counter. They should take care of their mess themselves. To get to TAP counter we had to leave the security area, find their counter and in no time, also known as two hours we had our new tickets. We waited another 20 minutes for our meal vouchers, because with the German punctuality they couldn’t give those out without stamps. Through the security, where they unpacked my bag (in Lisbon nobody cared, what I was carrying) and went to the first eatery to have some food. So good!
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