Mundane travel thread

With my smile and the amount of women here, it's a risk.

I'm in row DD, the jokes make themselves.

You're a fucking stud dude!

Anyway, I don't know if this is adopted anywhere else but even thought our holiday was Blighted by El Nino, landslides, floods, Earthquakes and yes even a hurricane (thank god climate change isn't a thing...), we did encounter a cultural thing i really liked that should be adopted around the world. At a very posh restaurant (yes there are some in South America you pedant cunts..), we were offered a bag (like at comedy shows) where we put our cell phones in. This was in order to promote social interaction and full attention with the tasting course and the waiter/sommelier. Considering my phone only seems to notify me about work and fuck all else I went with it. You know what? Didn't miss it once. I was a great evening with some tasty conversation and cool interactions. I almost forgot I even had a phone when they reminded me to take it with me when they took it out of it's protective covering. It may have also had something to do with the fact that we were told, "If you are not in Chile to drink, why are you here". The reason being that they wanted us to try Chilean wine with every serving. Not just any wine but four fucking glasses of the stuff each course. So it was safe to say that we don't drink as much nowadays we were absolutely wankered. So I probably would have forgotten my phone anyway...

Chicago: Renaissance Man

Sounds like the phrase "Me no speako Dago" got you quite a long way.

Well the longer I stayed the worse my spanish got because the fuckers could speak amazing English. I started to get embarrassed trying to hold a conversation in their native tongue and all my words got jumbled up. My main misdemeanors included starting off introducing my wife as my Esposa (correct) to by the end of the week to Abuela (grandmother), incorrect.

I totally gave up when I was ordering breakfast and asking for Bacon (Tosin) and ended up by the end of the week asking for calcetenes (which are socks..)

Yep, I ordered socks for Breakfast. What made it worse was that everyone in perfect English just told me how hard it was to learn Spanish. I felt like a right twat.

Wifey who couldn't speak one word when we got to Latin America ended up picking up the lingo during the week as she was negotiating buying Bolivian rugs/carpets off everyone all the time. I was totally lost.,

I give up.

Chicago: Brain Addled.

Sounds like a dodgy euphemism

Don't have anything booked at the moment and I'm getting itchy feet. I've always wanted to go to Japan, and there are some very good deals to Tokyo for February. Was mulling it over and came back this evening to find the lock screen on my work laptop showing a picture of Mount Fuji. A bit of a coincidence as there is zero connection between my work laptop and my phone so it can't know I was searching flights to Japan (never even logged on to my Gmail account on there).

Anyway, Sapporo is a place in Japan I've always been fascinated with and it seems that skiing there is both brilliant and cheap. They average around 5m of snow each winter, and that's in the city; far greater totals I'm the mountains not too far away. With hotels coming in at £69 per night at the end of February I'm almost sold...

Japan is fucking fantastic. We have been there twice. Probably got something to do with wifey's obsession's with Geisha's.

The food is amazing. The country is mental and it really is an absolutely fascinating place to visit. One of our favourite places.

Chicago" All in.

LHR - BOS

Me and kids are in Ipswich premier inn as planned.

Karlmark is currently in a cab to Colchester as all trains from Ipswich towards London cancelled. Hoping he can make it home tonight.

Won't be making it home tonight! Tree down near Colchester, so a night at a hotel in Colchester and then an early train home tomorrow.

Tomorrow Mid Wales to a car park in Staines, then a shuttle to the Terminal 4 Premier Inn.

Sunday morning LHR - CNX via AbuDhabiDoooooo.

From experience of travelling a lot on the US (usually when flights were cancelled due to weather), I made sure to book a hotel before anything else. Good thing I did as there isn't a hotel room to be had for love nor money now. The guy at reception told me they had six rooms free earlier on, and they old sold in twenty minutes, and he's on the phone constantly telling people there are no rooms.

Still no proper trains this morning as the overhead cables are down.

In a fuck you to all the tree huggers they are running a shuttle train Ipswich to Colchester pulled by a diesel that doesn't need the cabling.

Then should be trains from there to London

Diesel 1 Thunberg 0

Delayed 65 minutes.

Connection in Abu Dhabi was 1hr45. Any further delay and we miss our connection, reroute through BKK and get maximum compensation. This is why we look for short connections kids.

I've always thought that you don't tend to get compensation when flying. How does it work?

If you are late, you claim. There are restrictions.

Compo

Our connecting flight is 50 minutes late. We'd have made it if it was on time anyway. No compensation for me.

Thankfully no missiles. Yet.