Nice VII.V

Nice VII and a half. (is there a Roman Numeral for half?)

Tried very early this morning to get my boarding pass from Air France and they said I could not be processed due to a personal detail … I was able to get Cindy checked in but it turns out that they had me listed as a citizen of Uruguay!  I’m a big fan of Uruguay - they have a fine futbol team, I enjoy yerba mate, the sea coast and beaches are lovely, and the food is swell, but I’m really not a citizen. AF kept asking for my Uruguayan passport number in the booking and said I did not have a transit visa for further travel from the USA to Montevideo so that was that! Nothing I could do at 5 in the morning would correct the issue.  Finally at 8 am I went into my AF account and edited all of my personal data and one hour later, after the computer had digested the facts, I was able to get a boarding pass. AF is strange, given that we have business class tickets but there is no business class on the flight from Nice to CDG.  Rather than giving biz passengers seats in the front of the plane, they placed us each in middle seats and in different rows in the back of the plane.  Had to spend money to purchase exit row seats together, on top of the biz fare. Very weird.  The travel gods are conspiring against us and making sure we know that it is time to leave, even if we have to go to Uruguay first!