Am now home again, recovering from jet lag (is it still jet lag when you fly west?) and my Bash cold, which does not seem to want to go away.
The sleep is back on schedule, but my body seems to want breakfast just after midnight, lunch at about 0600, supper at 1200, and a nighttime snack around 1500!
Actually, would like to start a serious topic about being sat in a window seat next to someone who is so fat it looks like he'll take the seat out with him when he gets up.
Can you express your concerns to one of the FAs and get your seat switched (or on a full flight, get switched to the aisle seat)? To be fair, a Delta a/c went tech and this guy had been switched to Martinair at the last minute. Not sure if Delta's seats would have been any better . . . the most disgusting sardine experience I ever had was in the cattle class of a Delta 75.
But I digress . . .
Had a very pleasant jaunt RTM-LGW (and back) on CityFlyer/BA. Great view of the harbour on the return flight. RTM is in the process of being renovated, and should soon be quite posh - with a nice viewing terrace.
Had to spend NLG 40.50 on a taxi ride to Rotterdam Centraal Station (a kind PPRuNer drove me to the airport) but was on a train to Tilburg less that 30 minutes after landing at RTM! Easy-peasy since RTM looks to be a little bigger than ATW (Appleton, Wisconsin) and perhaps a little smaller than GRB (Green Bay, Wisconsin). Very pleasant - I'd pop over to the UK via RTM again, rather than hike through Schiphol!
This contrasted with LGW, where the gate number wasn't available until a half-hour before my return flight. (! Not a situation I've ever encountered before, but perhaps not unusual at LGW?) Of course, it provided a good excuse to get a cup of coffee and chat with a charming young man.
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pax d - narcissistic, short-sighted, ill-bred moron