Tag Archives: flight

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Garden tools break the rules (Rousse)

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Dreamaticus

At the airport, my sister-in-law JLR carried the hoe, and her partner J the rake. It wasn’t until we were just about to board the flight that it occurred to us that the size and shape of these items contravened … Continue reading →

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Award of a silver BA Executive Club card (Rousse)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Dreamaticus

I was delighted that the corporate purchase of a last-minute return flight to Argentina awarded me a silver British Airways Executive Club card.

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Cholera risk on transatlantic flights (Rousse)

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Dreamaticus

My entire family was flying to New York: mother, father and all three daughters (although my little sister was yet to put in an appearance). I arranged for us to travel in the greatest comfort: by king size bed. As … Continue reading →

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Cliff Richard love interest (Rousse)

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Dreamaticus

Cliff Richard showed an extraordinary degree of interest in my love life, and was rather surprised when I admitted to having three ‘proper’ boyfriends plus a husband of 30+ years. He had assumed that only a mad spinster would send … Continue reading →

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Missing the ‘mont’ in Montreal (Rousse)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Dreamaticus

The plane overheard sounded like it was in trouble. It was flying so low that we could all see that it was a transatlantic EasyJet service coming into the city. We predicted correctly that it would smash into the mountain. … Continue reading →

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Sunny South Shields shelters skiers (Rousse)

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Dreamaticus

We were travelling to our Alpine ski holiday on an early morning flight from Newcastle airport – as, it would appear, was half the population of the north east of England. All the airport hotels were fully booked, so we … Continue reading →

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