We all know the “delights” of flying
First we have to arrive at the airport hours before the flight and queue for Check-in. Then we queue again for Security; we have to make sure all our liquids are in small bottles in a plastic bag, our phones, tablets, laptops, cameras, hair driers and hair tongs, and so on, are all out of our carry-on bags and placed separately in the trays, along with our coats and jackets, belts, and sometime shoes; then after the X-ray machines we have to find somewhere to pack them all back into our bags without losing anything.
Then there’s the yellow brick road – a three mile walk through shopping hell as we’re persuaded to buy gallons of gin for our holiday, take out a lifetime subscription to Glen McWhiskey, invest in a vat of Channel, or buy electrical items we never knew we needed. Maybe we’re lucky enough to find somewhere decent to get a meal. Maybe we can find somewhere to sit in the crowded waiting area until our gate is announced. Then we hightail it to the gate, join another queue, finally board the plane and hope we can get our cabin bags in the overhead bins. And at the other end we queue for Passport Control then again at the luggage carousel. Finally we escape the airport and can start enjoying our holiday, in the certain knowledge that we can look forward to the same pleasures on the way home afterwards.
Or you could go by coach
The coach journey will, of course, take longer, maybe two or three days of travelling each way. It will (probably) cost more due to staying in hotels, but it will extend your holiday and give you the chance to get to know some of your cruise companions before you even get to the ship, not to mention the places to tour en route and all the scenery to be enjoyed.
-Peter Tyers
