I suppose one can't expect much movement on airfares when fully half the final fare is taxes. Where are we and how did we get in this handbasket? There's something distinctly wrong about taxes when they constitute more than a third of the final cost of something, In My Not So Humble Opinion.
So apparently we will have to break down and pay about $200 more than we wanted to. Sigh. On the other hand, having it settled will be good.
The flight we are looking at leaves Atlanta in late afternoon, leaving plenty of time for crazed racing around in the morning and still time to get to the airport and the possibility of sleeping on the flight. Returning, the flights all seemed to require arrival at the Rome airport at a hideously early hour - the kind that requires a cab ride because you can't take the train in a coma. Then we spotted one that leaves at 1 p.m. and flies to Paris with a 1 hour plane change time and gets back to Atlanta at 8:20 p.m., which gets me home by midnight at the latest, one hopes. And the Sunday to unpack, sleep a lot and gin myself up to return to work.
Still need to - pronto - attend to the international driver's license thing. And no response from my first cousin who lives in Florence. I might be the only relative ever who was coming to Italy and not expecting to stay with her.
So got to move the money and book the airfare this week.
