The Worst Journey in the WorldAspley Cherry Garrard was the youngest member of the Scott Polar Expedition when he and two others lost their tent to the winds of a night-time snowstorm. They spent hours in temperatures below -70°F stumbling about the ice floes hoping they'd bump into it as it was their only hope of survival.
OK, so that was bad, but we reckon you've had worse. We know how hard you lot are.
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chthonic, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 12:40)
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Never Fly Low CostRyanair, flying out of Treviso airport near Venice Jan 2002, we got fogged in. So Ryanair cancelled the flight, and took all their staff out of the airport terminal building so no-one could ask them any questions.
We had to stand in a queue for 2 hours to be told in pidgeon english by poor airport staff that the fog meant there were no flights available, and we needed to get a train to Breschia where there was a flight the following morning. we bought our tickets and trained it over to Breschia.
For anyone who's been in that neck of the Italian woods, Breschia is a crappy light-industrial town in the mid-north of Italy, and about as attractive as genital warts.
The airport is the worst I've ever been in in the free world, its a big tin box with loud gaudy shops in it, and we got to spend the night sleeping on one of it's hard uncomfortable benches.
In the morning, MORE FOG!! and dear old Ryanair cancelled their flights again without telling us.
If it wasnt for an extremely bright member of airport staff who negotiated 3 coaches to take us to Milan where the aircraft had landed, we'd probably still be there.
So we arrive at Milan and eventually take off, 24 hours after our original flight.
2 hours later we arrive in Stanstead, pissed off and tired.
I will never fly low-cost airlines again
(, Tue 12 Sep 2006, 11:56, Reply)
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