holidays day 20

aug 25 thu
we left Tórshavn on the first bus to the airport (6.00am) in the pouring rain, and reached the airport in good time to claim our tax refund - about 100 DKR. we spent all our remaining Danish cash on a selection of Faroese beer + cider cans from the duty free. the beer pack is over 4 kgs so we had to shift a few things from checked-in luggage to hand luggage before our next flight. the cider will not reach Italy... ;p
we spent the day at Stansted airport, as our flight is at 6.20 tomorrow morning, and we witnessed the coming and goings of a few hundred people.
notably:
# 1 - a group of Spanish kids wearing half of the content of their luggage to embark it on a Ryan Air flight... a carnival of clothes moving from here to there, and even a pair of shoes put in the inner pockets of a jacket! that brings a question to mind - why don't they just charge for the extra weight? or better still, mantaining the max dimentions allowed, why don't they just charge €1 per kilo, so it's fair to everyone - the more you carry, the more you pay. I mean, whether you WEAR the stuff you're embarking or you carry it in your hand luggage, the weight you put on the plane is just the same, so why all the fuss? they're really childish in these things. I'd write to them about it, but they carefully avoid any mail contact for complaints or suggestions, so... we'd just have to stop using them!
# 2 - a group of 2 or 3 Italian families are creating mayhem in the waiting lounge. with 2-3 children each, they keep going to and fro the check-in counters weighting their hand luggage (one at a time, mind) commenting loudly about exchanging items from one bag to another. in comparison, the previous group of Spanish teens were cloistered nuns...
late at night we try to get some sleep on Stansted not-so-comfortable seats...