Posted on August 29, 2008 by John Heald
I hate airplane food and having to pay for it is even worse.
In this case, I just paid $8 for lunch only because I have to take my diabetic pill.
For my money, I got on Styrofoam of ……….ummmmm……..hot. Hot what I have no bloody clue. It could have been tea, coffee or beef soup.
My [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by John Heald
Except that we didn’t take off. We sat at the gangway thingy and our take-off time went by without any communication from the cockpit. Eventually, 20 minutes after our departure time the Easy Jet Captain told us that we were waiting for four passengers …….
Why?……….Why were we waiting for them? Why didn’t they do [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by John Heald
The best news of the day so far is that for the first time in 11 days the sun is shining here in Amsterdam and nobody deserves it more than the guests this voyage. They have endured rain, grey skies, rain, cold wind and rain but today its 74 degrees and sunny.
Well, here I sit [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by John Heald
Rules — there are lots of them in the world today.
You can’t land unless the tray table is up, you can’t smack your children, you can’t smoke in a pub, you can’t take shampoo on a plane, you can’t climb a ladder unless three other people are holding it, you can’t eat more than six [...]
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