The last leg of the journey, and Bernard from St Lucia gets a text that says that the hotel is a scam , let us wait on a new address. This is in Heathrow. It has been a long journey to get a lot of people here to Vienna. Visa applications had to be done, flights had to be booked and accomodation had to be arranged.
Bernard wore his red ribbon and many people asked him if he was going to the conference. I saw a woman in the line at Heathrow with her AIDS 2008 conference and she said that she was heading to Vienna. She from Trinidad. But she have two suitcase of stuff fuh people in London, you know how it is. The lady said that plenty people not coming from Trinidad who normally come since the Government change. So we have to explore whether Kamla Government holding back on the ATM card for AIDS conferences.
The plane from Trinidad also had 84 people from Trinidad related to the Bishops Anstey Girls School choir..heading to Vienna to sing. Good for Trinidad!
So Bernard phone not getting signal in Vienna and we have to go find out where we supposed to be staying. We contact Marcus over the internet at a kiosk.. good thing he answer back.
It turns that the booking made by Marcus via Hostel Bookers did not go through. The hotel manager said he has never heard of them! Anyways it was sorted out. There was no free breakfast the first day though.
Some persons are annoyed at their accomodation arrangements while others have adjusted. It is not easy since small hotels in Vienna apparently do not need to be customer friendly for tourism, unlike us in the Caribbean
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