On London time…
We arrived very late last night due to a plane delay at Zurich Airport. We were riding EasyJet, which could easily been called SpatJet (LateJet) or, otherwise know as- Cattle herding! We boarded, wait for it,… a BUS to take us to the airplane. After having walked miles through the Zurich airport, I honestly believed we were either walking to London, or the bus was going to sprout wings and fly us there. Any I was pretty sure, the plane ride there was going to be standing room only.
Alright, so despite the late takeoff, the smelly customers, the extra crowded seating (what did EasyJet do, buy an old 727 from Continental, then add 100 seats?, and the incessant kicking at the back of my seat form the children behind me, it was a fine flight. We landed at 12:30 ish, but it was really 1:30 am in our heads (Swiss time). We had to catch a train as close as we could to the city, then catch a cab to the hotel, since the undergroud (Tube) was not running that late at night. Our taxi cab cost us almost 50 pounds! This is really expensive since the exchange rate is almost 2.5 to US dollars. Then when we got there, not only was the hotel in the boonies… but it was on the flight path for all flights landing at Heathrow!
Needless to say, we changed hotels as soon as I woke up, er, I mean woke up for the last time during the night. We decided to move into town, despite the increase in expense.
We arrived very late last night due to a plane delay at Zurich Airport. We were riding EasyJet, which could easily been called SpatJet (LateJet) or, otherwise know as- Cattle herding! We boarded, wait for it,… a BUS to take us to the airplane. After having walked miles through the Zurich airport, I honestly believed we were either walking to London, or the bus was going to sprout wings and fly us there. Any I was pretty sure, the plane ride there was going to be standing room only.
Alright, so despite the late takeoff, the smelly customers, the extra crowded seating (what did EasyJet do, buy an old 727 from Continental, then add 100 seats?, and the incessant kicking at the back of my seat form the children behind me, it was a fine flight. We landed at 12:30 ish, but it was really 1:30 am in our heads (Swiss time). We had to catch a train as close as we could to the city, then catch a cab to the hotel, since the undergroud (Tube) was not running that late at night. Our taxi cab cost us almost 50 pounds! This is really expensive since the exchange rate is almost 2.5 to US dollars. Then when we got there, not only was the hotel in the boonies… but it was on the flight path for all flights landing at Heathrow!
Needless to say, we changed hotels as soon as I woke up, er, I mean woke up for the last time during the night. We decided to move into town, despite the increase in expense.
2 Comments:
> Our taxi cab cost us almost
> 50 pounds!
2.5 Wotons?
(yes, I know that you mean the other kind of pounds, but I'm championing a new universal unit of measurement here, so...)
- Jeff
Awesome! We could have Woton be just like the Marklars. You know...
"Woton is such a woton. Why Woton just the other woton ate a big woton and boy did it woton. It cost us a woton to clear out the woton. If only he could sit still for a woton and didn't make such a huge woton about it we could woton, woton, and woton."
-- Paul
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