Verb conjugation of "respond" in English

The connecting flight to Phuket was fully booked, and the connection to Krabi had five empty seats. The problem was that the boarding began in ten minutes and I did not even have a ticket.
I have not been in eastern Germany for a long time, because I have never really had time to travel. What do you do for living and in your leisure time, like the weekends and evenings.
In winter it is a great place because you can ski. In the summer I like being in Paris because it is a very empty city in summer. The people head down to the coast, to Nice, Cannes and similar.