Technical problems with the airplane on its way from Amsterdam to Lisbon prevented my departure today at 15.35 to the city of sin. I now have to wait until 8am tomorrow to be able to get there and, as usual, spend the day at work feeling like a zombie (because I'll have to get up at around 4 in the morning).

It was, however, interesting to see all the people in my flight running around like crazy flies trying to get a flight out of Lisbon as soon as possible. Everyone pretty much ended up having to wait until tomorrow. A funny part of this happened when I was at the head of this line:

This guy, speaking in English on the phone, said that when the airplane captain finished his "you're not going anywhere" speech at the gate, all the personnel suddenly disappeared, in his own words, "Portuguese style". It's good to see that I should never feel bad pointing out stupid stuff in other cultures; everyone pretty much does the same everywhere, and that's the beauty of this world :)

I managed to get out of that line of people but I soon found myself in a second one for 30 more minutes until, finally, someone explained us how to get our luggage back. After that, I went back to the KLM stand (same place where I took the first picture) but, as you can see, a lot of people got lucky getting their luggage first:

Luckily, after only about 1 hour in the line, some lady came and told us to go home and be back at 6am. I love the airport in Lisbon :)