We nearly didn’t make Amsterdam in time for our flight home. Our departure from Antwerp being delayed due to a late returning bus, we missed a bridge opening time and were stuck in a canal waiting for a road bridge to open for around 3 hours.
This delay meant, on our normal travel time, we would not get to Amsterdam in time to get to our flight and plans were being made to toss us off the boat in the early morning hours to bus us to the airport. Fortunately we had a lucky run with the locks and our captain went flat out all night and we got in on time.
Our flight home with Singapore Airlines was as good as could be expected with their magnificent staff looking after us and we only had a two hour layover at Changi. It’s still an awfully long haul and we arrived home fairly wrecked. It’s great to be home.
Hardys’ Travels 