In Madrid...

I´m in madrid for a few days before Euro Rails Conf, checking things out. I´ll be giving a talk about testing ruby on rails in Tuesday. On the flight out, because of the new travel ‘security’ restrictions, i had to check my bag rather than just taking it as carry on. When i arrived at the baggage area in madrid, i waited and waited, my bag didn’t arrive. Eventually almost everybody else had left. Then, with just three of us waiting for bags, i saw my shirt, along, on the conveyor belt. Then a little present which was wrapped for a friend here in madrid. Then another shirt, then nothing. I’d never had pieces of stuff from inside my luggage appear like that. The lost luggage counter people were equally perplexed. It took them over two hours of calling around and searching. Somehow, the bag had been opened on a conveyor belt right before coming in to the baggage claim area. A few things had kept going, and everything else was stuck. The two other people waiting, had their bags trapped by mine. They got their bags rather quickly, but for me it was a long wait. They claime my bag was broken, but i can’t see anything broken about it. Either the zipper got caught, or somehow it got opened. It was quite a shock to check a full bag and get just two shirts and a present out the other end.

Anybody reading this blog in madrid? Want to meet up for coffee? Drop me an email, evan at protest dot net.