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Give Me A Break! Airlines: You are advised to arrive at the airport 2 hours before your flight is due to take off Why, is it so you can make hundreds of people drag their heavy luggage through snaking lines…
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Redefining Stupid: Of all the many stupid things I had done in my life, the following story hovers above gripping a stick between my teeth, leaning on the edge of a low wall then slipping; and drying a wet patch…
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British Midlands (BM), which no longer exists, having been swallowed up by British Airways (BA), used to have an early Friday evening flight from Brussels to Birmingham, England. A flight that barely took an hour in duration but because it…
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Is there anything more irritating than hearing the same funny line over and over again and be expected to laugh? You know statements like: “I am on a seafood diet, whenever I see food I eat it”, or “you don’t have…
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I love Lebanon in general and I am particularly crazy bout Beirut, even in times of trouble. It is beautiful, dangerous, creative, vibrant, optimistic, lethal, addictive but above all, it is full of surprises, mostly pleasant ones, with the occasional…
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Young couple pushing an airport trolley laden with luggage ask a security officer at Beirut Airport for information: Man: where is the check in desk for flights to Cyprus? Officer: are you on honeymoon? Man and Woman: yes, we are…
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Airlines give First & Business Class passengers various advantages to justify the exorbitant prices they charge them for basically getting to the same place at the same time as everyone else at the back of the bus. Privileges include private…
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Libya: During Gadhafi’s regime, I reluctantly agreed to go to Libya to help a company’s senior management put together a business plan. Being a restless soul, I like to get from A to B in the shortest possible time so…
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Northern Cyprus Again: Having gone through passport control and security (see previous blog), we settled down in the departure lounge of the tiny Ercan Airport waiting to board our plane to Istanbul. Soon a middle-aged couple joined us and sat…
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Northern Cyprus: If you are wondering where is the worst security measures at an airport, then you will be hard pressed to find one to challenge Ercan Airport in the Turkish Northern Cyprus. We once travelled to Istanbul via Ercan…
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