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Post by nob on Sept 8, 2018 7:10:27 GMT
What's Skiathos airport like for the return jurney? What was funny at the airport was the bus drivers they are a strange bunch, a bus door opened and out flew empty plastic water bottles and then the driver calling the passengers animals. Zante next year so we'll see what that's like.
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Sept 8, 2018 10:19:42 GMT
Zante is a brilliant place, apart from when I last went there I got eaten by skeeters and we had a moderate sized earthquake at 3am. Funny thing was the Greeks were running round like headless chickens and the Brits went out of the hotel and were demanding the outside bar opened, we watched the sun come up sipping a glass of ouzo.
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Post by banjo on Sept 8, 2018 12:00:04 GMT
Skiathos airport was nicely air conditioned. (well chilled air at least anyway- I have an HND as a building services design engineer.) There was the standard snake-like queue guided by ropes which moved along at a pace. (long enough for us / me to despatch that ouzo!) Pleasant check-in staff. They could have been awkward because your emminent idiot tore up the e-tickets trying to save weight in the cabin bag, but they accepted my reconstructed jigsaw puzzles rescued from the pedal bin!
About 15-20 check-in desks but as you said- only one scanner for cabin bags that I saw. Only one scanner for peoples too I think. I got pulled out as usual. After security, there was plenty of air conditioned seating. It wasn't packed.
The catering was good- two coffees to wash down the ouzo and some miniature chocolate cookies went for about 9 Euros. The baggage reclaim was super swift. (When we got back to Luton we waited half an hour for our cases.) The two bottles of Ouzo from the Duty Free were no cheaper than the supermarkets. Everything went like oiled precision bearing in mind we had to get a ferry first. I would single out Thomson / TUI for their stinking rotten meagre paltry 5Kg cabin baggage limit. The lightest cabin carry-on I could find weighed 2.2Kg. (Bear in mind that last year at Bilbao they weighed everyone's cabin bags.) We were lucky to get 20 Kg checked baggage. Most folk only got 15Kg.
So TUI: may your nads be infested with the fleas of a thousand camels' ring-pieces.
e&oe...
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Post by Ratae on Sept 22, 2018 16:12:23 GMT
Sad to hear that, give him a good send off. And yesterday, we did just that. The chapel at the crematorium was packed and the overflow room was also full. It was a lovely ceremony with some music from AW's fave band, Queen. Then it was on to the wake at a local Connie club, refreshments laid on. AW would be really proud of his pals, it was an epic send off. Yer man did the Squatter's proud and managed to see off many of the 'lightweights' like Greebo, Spanner, Juggy etc. Myself, Paddy and Meerkat were the last men standing. I'm afraid that at the end of the night, I did have to be helped both in and out of my taxi by an amused Chinese cab driver. (Can't remember.....but I hope that I gave him a tip)
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Post by sleepyjohn on Sept 22, 2018 17:20:55 GMT
Sad to hear that, give him a good send off. And yesterday, we did just that. The chapel at the crematorium was packed and the overflow room was also full. It was a lovely ceremony with some music from AW's fave band, Queen. Then it was on to the wake at a local Connie club, refreshments laid on. AW would be really proud of his pals, it was an epic send off. Yer man did the Squatter's proud and managed to see off many of the 'lightweights' like Greebo, Spanner, Juggy etc. Myself, Paddy and Meerkat were the last men standing. I'm afraid that at the end of the night, I did have to be helped both in and out of my taxi by an amused Chinese cab driver. (Can't remember.....but I hope that I gave him a tip) Excellent!!! That's the way to go.
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Post by nob on Sept 23, 2018 7:05:00 GMT
Sad to hear that, give him a good send off. And yesterday, we did just that. The chapel at the crematorium was packed and the overflow room was also full. It was a lovely ceremony with some music from AW's fave band, Queen. Then it was on to the wake at a local Connie club, refreshments laid on. AW would be really proud of his pals, it was an epic send off. Yer man did the Squatter's proud and managed to see off many of the 'lightweights' like Greebo, Spanner, Juggy etc. Myself, Paddy and Meerkat were the last men standing. I'm afraid that at the end of the night, I did have to be helped both in and out of my taxi by an amused Chinese cab driver. (Can't remember.....but I hope that I gave him a tip) Great stuff.
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Post by banjo on Sept 25, 2018 17:37:57 GMT
At The Blue Anchor in Helston, Spingo Special was "off" until at least the end of the week due to a failure in a malt delivery. This is a cruel and below the belt blow when you wait some six months for it.
e&oe...
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Post by nob on Sept 26, 2018 6:54:02 GMT
At The Blue Anchor in Helston, Spingo Special was "off" until at least the end of the week due to a failure in a malt delivery. This is a cruel and below the belt blow when you wait some six months for it. e&oe...Not good Steve, weather related or human failure, what excuse did they come up with.
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Post by nob on Sept 26, 2018 13:28:53 GMT
A year since Geoff was on, so I guess its RIP mate.
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Post by banjo on Sept 26, 2018 14:12:41 GMT
Failure in malt delivery. Hmmm... When you wait six months drinking the local slop in the home counties (even London Pride has gone down the pan) it's a kick in the guts. Sorry for those that like the stuff- one man's meat etc, but when I walk into a bar and have to decide between Betty Stoggs and the all-too ubiquitous Doom Bar, my spirits sink. Even Spingo "Middle" was a let down. On the other hand, the craic in The Blue (nearly) makes up for it.
I miss Geoff. He used to get there just before me in the charity thread every morning when I was still working. It's sad. I still like to think that he's just too busy.
It's been another cracker here today. We've just sat on the decking all day having a drink and nibbles. Finished off the Ouzo with orange juice, I'm on Adnams Broadside now. Some compensation at least! We have a 180° view of the sea on the eastern side of The Lizard, both fron the decking and from ibside with two sides of the room entirely glazed. Get's purtee warm with the sun on it. The moon rises have been astonishing.
I'm feeding a very tame robin. Life's good.
e&oe...
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Post by banjo on Sept 26, 2018 20:54:02 GMT
OK the idiot hippy fell over on a bit of collapsed road surface; you know that cheap surface with loads of bits of granite sticking up? I think the surface type may have been deliberate and intended to help with frosty surfaces on the admittedly steep incline down into the cove- not just some itinerant with a spare lorry load, but the fractured "step" was not. Two palms, one forearm and one knee taken out, and it had nothing to do with the day's alcohol intact. I guarantee! Tis but a flesh wound... I can't find the old photography thread- Perhaps Alan nuked it when he bailed our? Here's a shot of tonight's moon when it poked its head above the parapet: [url=https://postimg.cc/qhZVK5WZ Taken from the decking by waggling my mobile over the eyepiece on an 80mm ED refracting telescope. Not particularly sharp, but a result considering the method deployed? e&oe...
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Post by nob on Sept 27, 2018 7:19:07 GMT
Very Nice what make is your mobile?
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Post by banjo on Sept 27, 2018 7:32:50 GMT
It's a Lenovo P2.
Its one standout feature is the 5,200 mAh battery. So good that you can charge another phone from it.
It's the telescope that did the legwork. The phone is barely any better than a scanner when being used like this.
e&oe...
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Post by nob on Sept 27, 2018 12:51:54 GMT
Cheers for the heads up, Since I updated my Sony the keys on the right of the screen are "iffy" it seems to be some get effected by the new software.
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Post by Ratae on Oct 29, 2018 22:17:03 GMT
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.......may your god be as kind to you as you were to LCFC.
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