Pear-shaped

It all went wrong.. We made it to Hannover okay. We had the tickets and passports we even checked in our luggage but we were then informed that we must validate our tickets at the Tui desk.. Here things went rather awry.. The manager at the Tui desk was actually the manager for 12Fly and we'd bought tickets with these via Expedia except Expedia had not paid them and they would not honour the tickets even though Expedia guaranteed they had receieved payment from us.. Lisa was going mental.. I was strangely calm.. After an hour of wrangling and various phone calls we had missed our flight and therefore our holiday to Fuerteventura was officially off. I decided to cut our losses and run and ditched the 12Fly/Expedia deal and bought a holiday for £300 cheaper from another company to Majorca. So feeling calm and positive we went to a fleamarket in Hannover bought some Russian communist leader dolls and went back to base ready for the flight to the Balearic capital tomorrow. Expedia have messed up twice now in one year and that's too much.. I'll never use their shoddy services or those of 12Fly ever again.