Going underneath instead of over the top

The icelandic volcano continued to blow ashes and smoke into the skies and as a consequence flights in many parts of Europe remained disrupted through out Friday. As the cloud continued travelling southwards and reached more parts of the continent, airspaces in Germany, Poland, France and even Austria were closed during the course of the day. For Markus this meant: stay in London and not see your family for at least another day. But as the outlook for improvement is not really looking good markus was looking for alternative routes to get back home.

The obvious first choice was the EuroStar train connecting the UK with Belgium and France, but a few others had the same idea and the trains were booked out. So the only other way was to re-book to a flight on Saturday and pray. By coincidence Markus overheard one of his German colleagues about driving to Munich in a minivan and that sounded like a good idea. Markus was lucky, grabbed the last spot on the car and set off towards the channel just after lunchtime. As there was no queuing in front of the EuroTunnel they reached mainland Europe by and the arrival at Munich airport, where Stefan is supposed to pick him up, looks realistic after midnight.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus