Past perfect and past simple

We ___ (have) a terrible journey on the way to Barcelona. The problems ___ (begin) when we ____ (leave) home at 6:30 in the morning.

There ____ (be) a huge traffic jam on the motorway because two lorries ______(crash) and the road _____ (be) completely blocked.

By the time we ___ (reach) the airport, we ___ (miss) our flight.

It ___ (take) off 5 minutes before we ___ (arrive) at the check-in desk.

We ___(try) buy some tickets for the next flight to Barcelona, but they ___(sell) all the seats.

In the end we ___ (buy) tickets for a flight at 7o'clock that evening and ___ (spend) the whole day at the airport.

We ___ (land) in Barcelona at 21:45, but we ___ (not collect) our suitcases from the arrivals hall until 11:00 o'clock because there ___ (be) a baggage handlers' strike that day.

By the time our taxi driver ___ (find) our hotel, the restaurant ___ (close), so we ___ (go) straight to bed without having dinner.