2 posts tagged “delays”
After one of the most surreal two days I've spent in rooms of men wearing suits I was looking forward to sitting down at home and enjoying a couple of nutty brown ales.
Sadly, that was not to be. Brussels Airlines decided to add a 90 minute delay to the 50 minute flight back from Geneva. The captain thought this was acceptable on the grounds that they had started the day with a three hour delay. Frankly, the whole things stinks of incompetence to me. Belgium's flag carrier used to be called Sabena, which I was always told was an acronym for "Such a bloody experience - never again". I think they should take a good long look at Easyjet, which seems to use the same planes in the same configurations but actually keeps to its published schedules.
I got back late to find that the top of one of the bottles had been chipped and its contents seemed to be undergoing a third fermentation. Frankly, it looked like brown sick when I poured it, so I tried another bottle which went down like a dream. It's not a quaffing beer as it's got real body and flavour. It's something to savour slowly, perhaps with a bit of cheese or some nice Swedish crackers.
Im sure that some of Waterloo's other offerings will be appearing in my shopping basket later this week. The Tripel 7 looks very tasty.
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It's got to be travel delays and lost bags, hasn't it? Here are two. The first is from a travel meltdown (that thankfully missed me) on 25 Deember 2004, when I flew to San Francisco. Tens of thousands of Americans got stuck in airports and had their bags lost or misdirected. The second is the neatly printed sign to the lost luggage counter at Lisbon Airport back in December 2002.
Apparently the Romans used to call baggage "impedimenta" and I totally agree with them. These days I do my best to avoid checking luggage when travelling. Sadly, that will probably be unavoidable for my trip to Chistchurch later this month.
