Stuttgat
My trip to Stuttgart man oh man.The
plane was leave Toronto 5 pm Wed get to Stuggart
7.30 am Thursday sometimes the best laid plans.
Wed afternoon get a call from the
guy who is getting me on the plane as were traveling
on a buddy pass at 2pm he works for Air Canada, " Tam he says
the flight to Toronto to Frankfurt looks dodgey to get on we have a plan
"B" get to the airport right now and we will fly to Montreal looks
good from there. Ok I say I will be
right down, On we go to Montreal no
problem, we get to Montreal flight to Frankfurt leaves
5 pm. We are on stand by flight guy
comes over to us and says sorry only got room for 1 AWWWE NAWWW
Its aweright my mates says we have
plan "c" ok then I say to him wit is it 2 things
he says we can fly back to Toronto and take a chance we get on the
flight to Frankfurt or stay he and take a chance on A flight toLondon, and
we should be ok that way as loads of flights go to Stuttgart and Frankfurt fae
there. He says that he isnae confident on getting on the Frankfurt flight
from Toronto but if we didnae we could probley get back tae Montreal
and get the London wan or even the
late London wan fae Toronto, I say wur here
let's take a chance on the London wan fae here, As luck wid have it we get
the last two seats, and we are offski, The big man pulls a couple of strings
and its first class all the way to London, we are on the plane and my
mate pulls out all the schedules for
planes going to Germany he says Plan "d" big man.
I say ok give us it. There is a flight to Stuttgart leaving at 8.15am we
might just get in time for it. We get to London 7.35 am run like a couple
of maniacs to the next terminal we run in and the people are boarding
the flight
3 minutes afore take aff we hand her the tickets she says sorry full
up nae room . But there is a flight leaving for Frankfurt 9.15 am so we say
ok put us down for it. Punters showing up in droves now we go over to the
lassie she says disnae look good sorry fellows but hang in there, go over
there and sit down. we Sit down big
man says don't worry Tam we got a Plan,!!!!!
I stop him right there and say
listen I got a fckn plan and its gonny be sum cnts funeral
if I dont get there. he laffs the lassie calls oor names we go over and
she says you got the last two seats tears whell up in my eyes, On we go flight
arrives Frankfurt 11.50 am OK wits the plan noo a ask, as we hivnae been
sittin on the plane beside wan another. We go find bobs rental car hire get
a car and drive tae Stuttgart. BOBS FCKN RENTAL FCKN CAR HIRE WIT THE
FCK IS THAT I scream at him , big
bastrd laffs am only kidding he says but we
hiv tae find this place called Car pool where ye get a car for 8 pounds a day
cos am a employee, awe Fck naw a
says tae him jist go tae hertz or budget al pay NO, NO, NO big man
he says wull be aweright we ask where we can find this place and we
get there its about 20 minutes walk fae the airport. He is renting the
car then he turns to me and says
hey big man can you drive a standard aye a said
but thought you hid driven in Germany afore aye! a did he says but it was
a auto shift disnae matter I say I
can anyway. so out comes this wee shite box
of a ford fiesta. Its now almost 1 pm on to the auto- baun we go should have seen
the faces of some of the merc audi and vw as the wee shite box going
at 180 klms flashin lights tae tell
them get tae fck out ma way, it then became
the fck Indi 500 naw the big motors wurnae havin any of that shite wee
car like that passin thum they get
up ma arse and flash there lights I move over and
they disappear in tae the wild blue yonder but it was smashin. We make Stuttgart
200klm 2.30 pm smaashin now we are there got find oor way to the hotel
where the guy with oor tickets is we stop a couple of times asking direction
and get to the Hotel 3 pm the guy is sitting in the lobby with about
ten punters awe slabbering waiting for the tickets if we dont make.
Quick change into oor Strips and
down to the big square, Party Time Martin I went
over where the Brussels banner was and asked for ye but two ghuys there
didnae know you so I just went about enjoying sites and sounds ,
Start heading to the game from there
tried the wee train and thought naw that pandemonium
there get a Taxi, jump a Taxi up tae the Stadium and had a blast.
was a bit scary last 15 minutes but I was very very proud of the tims that
showed up there and got behind the team thank FCK some the moaning face bstrd
from this list wisnae there. Leave the stadium after the game get on the
wrang train and go the opposite way from wit a should have end up getting
back to the hotel at 11.45 pm go for a quick Chinese get to bed around
1 pm wake up 5 pm on the road back at 6 am get on all the flights bang
bang bang Frankfurt to Montreal then Montreal to Toronto in the hoose here
for 3pm Toronto time read some of the post from the moaning face bastrd and
say tae masel Tims they dont FCK no the meaning of being a Celtic Supporter,
and I am not saying I am any better a Celtic supporter than anyone
but for fcks sake yer wife's must be awefull hard on yez and the only thing
ye can dae is come on this list and moan. Would I do it again yes ye
better believe it god bless the
Celtic and all who support them.
Hail Hail Tam Donnelly of to
ma kip