WTF have I been!!!?

Well I don't know what's happened since I last bothered to post something here, it doesn't feel like much has but it's been hectic enough that I've not found the time to write so there's got to be something.

Ah yes..... Everyone one's favourite cheap and Cheerful airline. A long week-end trip to the French pryrennes, started well enough. Check in, boarding, take-off, all fine.
As is normal on these flights I dozed off as there's nothing worth being awake for. The quality of food is appalling and over priced and there's not much else on offer worth contemplating.
As I lay somewhere in a half doze I heard the captain come over the tanoy. He sounded calm as ever but the message wasn't great.

Destination airport closed due to an incident involving another aeroplane.
Destination airport two closed due to snow.
We'll shortly be landing in Bergerac. Well for all you older UK based folk who thought it was just a TV show from the 80s I'd like to inform you that the place really does exist. Those wonderful chaps at Google Maps inform me that it's about 218 km from our original desitnation, Pau. It turned out to be a little further for us as you may read below.

So there we all were sat on a plane on a runway in a small provincial airport wondering what the heck was going to happen, the announcements soon started to come through, I won't bother putting the delays in:

• We're getting our agent on the ground to try and organise coaches (I almost laughed out loud at that one).
• We've been unable to organise coaches for you, if you wish to disembark to continue your onward journey it will be without any further assistance from us, if you wish to remain on the aeroplane we will be heading back to Stanstead where we will see what we can do for you.

Being somewhat cynical I could well imagine what "see what we can do for you" entailed, a voucher to the value of the outbound flight and you would lose the value of the return flight you couldn't make......
Needless to say we soldiered on. Now going back to that 218 km. Well the problem here is that that's by road, quite direct. We had no choice but to get the train. This meant heading west (instead of pretty much south) to Bourdeaux (please avoid eating near the train station, the wine we had was crap, a poor irony in the town that shares its name with such a well know variety).

All in all things got off to a poor start, and rather than being at our destination by around 13:00 we eventually arrived just after 01:00. Still we found a way to entertain ourselves and we all knew that should anything go wrong Ryan Air would abandon us, hell how could they afford not to???