I wanted to get to Copenhagen early (as in tonight) so I’d have a day and a half to get a fresh new passport as well as a brand-new bank card before my returning flight to JFK.
Tonight’s 8:05 pm SAS flight from Milano Malpensa to Copenhagen had several unbooked seats, I was told, but the desk agents said they couldn’t break the rules so I’m crashing this evening in the Malpensa-adjacent commune of Ferno.
A nice, friendly little rooming house. The landlady, a good soul, drove out and picked me up at Malpensa…an extra 20 euros.
In the old days they would let you fly standby on a try-your-luck, catch-as-catch-can basis, if you wanted to leave earlier for whatever reason…no longer. I would have those catch-as-catch-can days again.
A medieval church bell began ringing this morning at 7:30 am….wonderful.
Malpensa airport is a long way from Milan — 49 kilometers or 30 miles. The so-called “Malpensa Express” lops and chugs along like a freight train…no hurry. And the ride takes an hour! Malpensa is a little bit closer to the southern tip of George Clooney‘s Lake Como than it is to Milan.
