DEPARTURE!!!
With one hour delay from home ... Traffic stopped on the motorway leading to Malpensa, in short, nothing we will be spared on that day of departure. Any tampering with the traffic we get from my cousin to leave the car and run like lightning at the airport. We have our miracle, and 45 are only 43.8 kili on their balance! Certainly Angelo, my husband went to check-in alone while I kept away prying eyes of our baggage outlawed by the weight and measure. But it seems that not too many suspects gave, it is true that a po'coperto by anoraks and taken as if they were filled with single feather was easy (?) Deceive the staff. First inspection of hand luggage and unfortunately something inside attracted the attention of auditors. What ever I thought, surely one of the car designed for drivers Mejet, but not interested at all, even the 2 bottles of Champagne to celebrate our return to the homeland of Genghis Khan, nor the Swiss chocolate nor the 2 books fabulous fairy tale illustrated by a great love from
Mongolia, Cristiano Lissoni. Then you bust all over, I do not know what more I put in that damn bag and what did they think of an umbrella or wiper 2 stools were going fishing end their life in the Mongolian steppes! Help me rearrange the bag and surprise us all by one! We head towards gate B25. It's almost the time of loading. Tail, and I realize that the steward shakes her head, is not the right gate! As would be if the gate B25 from a plane to Moscow at the same time of our own? It will not be not the latest trendy joke? Where is the error? Tells us to run the most quickly as possible to B5, had confused the number of seats 25 with the gate 5 with all these 5 then! Then the heart in throat, anxiety in the legs part is, there is, say you fly with each of its 15 kili stock and anoraks under his arm full of glasses for my humanitarian work there, and because their were used as baggage, and certainly there are mobile stairs to climb in these cases would be too easy for real? Hammer in the head just one sentence: do not do anything, now the plane is lost and no one called us! But Genghis Khan watches to our knowledge, the B5 is now boarding and there is not even started! The ladies were late because they remained trapped even with a 'more air! Throw to the ground more that deposit these bags damned puff almost spitting the lungs. We are the first to submit documents and to get on board and with a huge sigh of relief as we sit sweaty horses furious Mongolian to resume breath and lose our emotions waiting for the next ... and when about half an hour after the plane gets up in the sky of the plains of Lombardy imagining that some of you scrutinized the clouds for a glimpse knew now that
Mongolia was a burst shot by us!
... and close as sardines, knees in the nostrils slowly the great white bird taken leapfrogging in Russian dusk without imagining that a few hours after we would have the most pleasant surprise of our lives: the snowy Mongolian steppes. Just how great that feeling to go home that overwhelm us! Stretches as far as the eye under the cold white snow, sometimes giving the impression of a postcard in black and white. For our return Genghis Khan had orchestrated the most beautiful spectacle that could offer us: an immaculate
Mongolia.
... two days later but here we are on the roads 200 km after the start without alerting the jeep leaves us to foot! Fermatesi gathering to admire the crane to leave for the Gobi desert, their flight there was fatal! Genghis Khan would have just found it abandoned? we could not believe it ... it was only after 48 hours of total dismantling of the engine, of laborious strokes of phones to the capital from where it departed assistance with spare parts to be broken in turn that we could finally start to our next adventure with the old songs Mongolian folklore and gray henceforth protectress of Genghis Khan ...
Mongolia is always worth ...
The sequel to the next episode with:
Mongolia: the flight dell'aquila
Graziella (angy8@bluewin.ch)
For a trip to freedom across the steppes of Genghis Khan; mejet69@yahoo.com in English or www.mongoliatours.org
Practical information: my pages: http://xoomer.alice.it/gengiskhan