Tag Archives: flight

A wasted return trip to New Zealand (Rousse)

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Dreamaticus

My old running pal EJ forgot her rugby bag when she set off for New Zealand. ‘To hell with the expense!’ I thought as I booked my flight. It was worth the cost to deliver the bag to her in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged £1000, bag, class, first, flight, Gambia, money, New Zealand, return, rugby, running, trip, waste | Leave a comment

Lockerbie one-upwomanship (Rousse)

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Dreamaticus

I was working as an au pair for a vile vain woman who treated me as her inferior in status and intelligence. She also employed three young foreign woman in her kitchen at night. When I learnt that the others … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 103, au pair, flight, kitchen, Lockerbie, Pan Am, student, Sunderland, university | Leave a comment

A forgetful bald friend and queuing for a flight to Denmark (Rousse)

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Dreamaticus

With her bald head, RJ looked like a cancer patient. I said that I hoped that her family and friends knew that she had shorn off her hair to raise money for charity. Otherwise, they would be very worried about … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, bald, cancer, charity, cycle, Denmark, family, flight, friend, hair, museum, niece, pool, queue, research, sister, towel | Leave a comment

American carries rifle as hand luggage on commercial flight from Heathrow to the Far East (Rousse)

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Dreamaticus

The American couple were also heading for the Far East. We were just at the start of our long journey. They had already endured several hours in the confines of economy having flown into Heathrow from the US just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American, departure, economy, far east, flight, hand, Heathrow, husband, lounge, luggage, rifle, wife | Leave a comment

Hugging The Cure (Rousse)

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Dreamaticus

The bad news was that I forgot to print out KT’s promised boarding pass. The police arrested her for 30 minutes for wandering the airport without the required paperwork. I served as her legal representative when I accompanied her for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, Boarding, flight, legal, pass, representative, the Cure, travel | Leave a comment

Edinburgh to Australia via Perth in a House of Bruar cashmere coat (Rousse)

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Dreamaticus

The long haul flight took an interesting route. Its first stop after leaving Edinburgh was the city of Perth, 32 miles north of the Scottish capital. The plane travelled here by road, and collected extra passengers from the High Street. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Australia, cashmere, coat, Edinburgh, flight, hand luggage, House of Bruar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysians, nervous breakdown, passengers, Perth, plane, speech, suitcase, TPR | Leave a comment

Security advice for North Texas airport (Rousse)

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Dreamaticus

I reached the F family’s house first on foot. My frail, elderly father followed by taxi. There we extracted PMF from the chaos of the house rebuild. He’d already missed one flight home to Edinburgh (cost £100), but had just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, Edinburgh, father, flight, glasses, house, North Texas, rebuild, security, staff, taxi, Texas, tip | Leave a comment

UK-Australia: best two-for-one return flight ticket deal (Rousse)

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Dreamaticus

After rejecting membership of a new running club, and the designs by a pair of old women for our new bathroom, TPR and I walked up to the Australian embassy to organise a day return trip to the other side … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged album, Australia, bathroom, embassy, financial, flight, photograph, return, running, Sydney, TPR, trader, triplet, twin, UK | Leave a comment

British Airways drop flight safety briefings at pandemic end (Rousse)

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Dreamaticus

The room started to rumble, three women in British Airways uniforms stepped to the front, and it felt as though we were in flight. However, since we had not heard the safety briefing, I doubted that this were possible. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airport, briefing, British Airways, cabin, crew, crowd, end, flight, Heathrow, pandemic, safety | Leave a comment

Poor plane facilities and a pair of pale green eyes (Rousse)

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Dreamaticus

JC booked a holiday for us all in Spain. She and her husband kindly collected us by car and drove us to the airport 300 miles south. There were all sorts of problems with the plane’s facilities. My Canadian cousin … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Canadian, cousin, eyes, facilities, flight, green, plane, plastic surgeon, Spain, steward, toilet | Leave a comment