Five more days until the tour officially commences, but Edward has already started his tour diary!
THE POST PANDEMIC TOUR DIARY 2022 Day One
October 13
Of course, referring to this tour as ‘Post Pandemic’ is wildly unrealistic but it sounds better than the “Everyone Stopped Bothering to wear masks and pretend COVID was no longer a problem Tour 2022”. I’m sitting in Heathrow Terminal 5; a busy, hassling sort of place but nestling in my list of ‘airports I hate’ at a respectable 15th.
So what is my least favourite transport hub? Frankfurt is certainly a contender for its rudeness, size and its ability to make the innocent traveler feel like a cockroach.
But no… The VERY WORST airport in the Kaspelian Diary of Horrors is Amsterdam Schiphol. I recall one horrendous night after a one hour flight in a frightening storm where it took nearly double that time to get through Passport Control ( pre Brexshit too!). The crowd was crammed into a small corridor . Here and there it actually swayed from side to side. People screamed , small children were crying incontrollably. And the unnecessarily pedantic officer in his uniform wanted to see the whites of everyone’s eyes. Naturally I did make a complaint.. it was acknowledged and passed on. Bah!!!
Let’s be positive and dwell on the wonder of Southend Airport. You have to go there….
