Travelogue II: Journeys And Arrivals

Journeys Are Often Better Than Arrivals

(written 4 July)

If you are travelling with American Airlines this is palpably untrue. If they should ever invite you to a brewery you may rest assured that there will not be a piss-up occurring. They’ll probably lay on a piddlingly small number of staff who haven’t got an earthly about what’s going on and then make you sleep on a chair for a while for no apparent reason. At no point will anyone volunteer the word ‘sorry’ for the inconvenience you are quite obviously suffering.

Gap year Overgraduate style

Here are the pertinent facts for the prospective traveller: Fact 1: Miami Airport – shithole with gratuitously rude security staff. I’m fed up of having to defend the USA to people. I have a love of the place and its people but really lads your current conduct of airport security is impolite, unnecessary and probably ineffective. Get over yourselves and revert to being charming please. Fact 2: American Airlines – shower of shit. And that goes for our own flag carrier too – British Airways were only too willing to get us to Miami late, dump us there and leave us to our own devices without a word of comfort or advice. Fact 3: Panama City restores one’s faith in human nature even if you arrive a day late, unshaven, unwashed and unrested. People are nice, which makes up for no amount of infrastructure or systems failure. Fact 4; we have our own pool here at Red Frog Beach Resort. Actually that is rather more of a boast than a pertinent fact. I didn’t want you to worry about me.