Airports need to stop naming themselves after places they aren't in. It just leads to idiots like me flying to Baltimore instead of DC.
Airports need to stop naming themselves after places they aren't in. It just leads to idiots like me flying to Baltimore instead of DC.
It certainly makes much more sense as to why the flights there are £15 a pop with how far out it actually is.
A bit like Glasgow Prestwick
Originally Posted by Shindig
It's pretty close, tbh. At least you are not in Seattle.
The best London ones so far have been London Oxford Airport and the attempt to rename an entire county North Londonshire [RIP Northamptonshire].
Shoreham may or may not have flirted with some sort of London branding as well. Any further away from London and you'd be in the sea.
Not sure how you'd make that Baltimore error. What is it called, Proposition Joe International?
I can only imagine how American tourists feel when arriving at Heathrow and instead of the gleaming clockface of Big Ben or the magnificent grounds of Hampton Court, their introduction to England is instead the vast concrete bleak grey low-rises and halal food outlets of Bedfont, spread out in front of them in the taxi windows like someone else's shit on a bathroom floor.
I booked a car at San Francisco airport but I actually landed in Oakland.
Thankfully the company were kind are sorted me out something.
London Luton is also great. You're about an hour away from London.
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
Frankfurt Hahn is a classic of the genre. You're basically in Luxembourg.
Oh that old classic.
I know it's hard to follow conversations at times.
Humberside Airport is technically in somewhere that doesn't exist, so that might be the winner.
I've dealt with two german airports and its incredible how much it feels like stepping straight into the Soviet era.
Hour away from me it’s fucking beautiful. The only thing better would be getting a flight from Norwich.
We flew from the new Berlin airport last month for all German efficiency it was fucking useless in there.
I mean, that airport was a shambles throughout. Needing to run trains to the place to keep it ventilated, the Vomitkurve, etc.
They're always arseholey about passport cards in Germany but I love arguing it with them because I know I'm right and they don't like simple little Paddy being right.
What's a passport card?
Typical German.
It's an ATM card sized passport that allows travel between EU countries instead of the booklet one. I only ever need my book for the US now.
Poland does those cards too, they call them identity cards though.
Genuinely never heard of it. Interesting.
The only real bother with them is that they're a shorter period than the book.
Are they new? I don't think we had them back in the good old days of out EU membership.
+1 for not knowing about this.
They're an Irish thing.
An EU thing I would think.
Ours see valid for the same five years a passport is. It is much more convenient than a passport as it fits in your cardholder.
My partner is Portuguese and does all her intra-European travel on her ID card. She’s just got British citizenship too so she’a got the lot - EU ID card, Portuguese passport and British passport.
Kikoette.
I'd argue Carlisle Lake District Airport is pushing it.
Tony Blair tried to bring in ID cards here in the mid 2000s and was pushed back at by the civil liberties lobby on privacy grounds. I wonder if they will swing back to being right wing again once the reds get in. Constantly opposed to the government no matter what.
On a train in Rome and on the little screens showing next destination they have a window showing CCTV from the other carriages. Pretty weird.
Far too hot on this train though, they're absolutely pumping the heating.
Perv cams.
Double sweat.
Is it any weirder than having CCTV monitors getting cycled through on buses?
What's worth seeing/doing in Malta?
Lewis is yer man.
I went to Gozo and Valletta and that was about that as far as tourism went.
The Vatican is seriously impressive.
Room after room after room of amazing art/statues/historical shit.
I didn't know they'd moved it.
Silema is nice for a mooch around
The old bit of Valletta is worth a day (I never did the East/South side of the main bay which I should have done), and so is Mdina/Rabat. The buses into Valletta are alright, but get a taxi to the latter because like Waffelz said the other day the buses are shit, driven by monkeys, and stop every two minutes.
Again, sorry to detail James and Malta.
The Colosseum is incredible, it's well worth going underground.
One place I really liked was Circus Maximus even though it's just a big empty field, proper sense of place about it and there was a magic pizzeria by one of the corners. It was only after coming home we found the mouth of truth statue was about 2 mins from there as well
I'm going to have to come again. There's so much to see and I feel I've barely scratched the surface.
I've never been, almost waiting for a 3 month sabbatical or something so I can do it properly and learn the language. Sadly that only happens in quite far-fetched novels about rich people.
Did 410 miles on the bike last weekend for a camping trip to Dalat. Final 1hr into/out of the city is immense driving (winding roads etc), but the rest of the journey was a not good for the backside.
You need to check for a bulge before you pay.Did 410 miles on the bike last weekend for a camping trip to Dalat. Final 1hr into/out of the city is immense driving (winding roads etc), but the rest of the journey was a not good for the backside.
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Lol at the latest Ryanair grift. The overhead lockers are apparently only for people who have booked priority, everyone else's bags has to go under the seat in front. Good luck trying to enforce that.
Also managed to get a perforated ear drum on the flight so fuck them.
I was on a Ryanair flight a couple of weeks ago and didn't have any problems with them grifting. Maybe they just hate you?
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