Flying Ryan

Over the Alps

They say that soon or later Ryanair will make passengers pay 1euro for using the toilet on board. Everyone already knows that the company offers no service whatsoever and the reason why people like it is for its cheapness. I can’t complain at all. My first Ryanair flight was in 2006 from Milano to Oslo in occasion of my Erasmus exchange in Norway, and Ryanair was just inaugurating that new route...from cold to frozen! Back then flying with Ryanair was the only affordable option to get so up north. For uncountable times I’ve been flying to The Netherlands and back, then to Spain, to London, to Paris, to Latvia...and now to Belgium. The cheapest ticket I’ve ever bought was only 5 euro to Berlin. But of all trips and destinations, my favourite is always when I’m flying back home deep south.

I must say that flying over Italy is amazing and whenever I’m directed to Trapani or Palermo, Ryan feels to me like a high school friend taking me home while telling stories...from the Alps downwards is all a changing landscape of harbours and beaches, mountains and islands, sea everywhere, and the country’s unique shape to suggest what is what. Perhaps, it's that Italy everyone falls in love with.