My scorn about travel agents in this day and age seems to have been largely misplaced, as the emails I received today from my mother about my flight bookings show. My flight to Rome has been booked, as have my parents' flights out to Europe and so forth; the hotels are still being worked out some, I think. The rough draft of Europe 2011 looks like this:
Wednesday, September 21, 2011-Thursday, September 22, 2011: Alitalia from Boston Logan (depart 5:45 PM eastern time) to Rome Fiumicino (arrive 7:45 AM Rome time)
Arrive in Paris evening Sunday, December 4, 2011
Arrive in London sometime Friday, December 9, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011: Delta from London (depart 10:30 AM London time) to Boston Logan (arrive 1:45 PM eastern time)
I'm not quite sure of the details of the time in London, but there is a hotel booked for Paris and apparently appropriate flights booked between cities, which I have not seen yet. Regardless, possibly the best news of all is the fact that my flight to Rome and my flight back from London together cost only about US$800. Transatlantic travel for about US$400 each way? Not too shabby on the travel agent's part, assuming that these aren't totally crap seats. Alitalia's luggage policies don't seem terrible, per se, but I am extremely wary of trying to bring a bunch of stuff back on Delta from London, considering how I will be in Europe for 80-odd days and will probably accumulate some interesting things in my travels.
All told, I am glad that things in the logistics department are progressing well (and, so far, remarkably cheaply), considering that I have until mid-May before we get to meet our professors for the program and learn the nitty-gritty details of our academic time in la citta' eterna.
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