Back to reality. Blog 20090103053

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Saturday 3rd January 2009 Brighton, England.

We are now back in reality after our holiday in the States. England seems so small and certainly overcast, windy and cold.

Of course as always, when getting back from holiday, there are a million things to do. So I have had to put off other things in order to get this blog written. We got into London Heathrow early morning yesterday and were meet by our taxi for Brighton, getting home about midday. We left from JFK on the 1st with Virgin Atlantic. I asked the check-in clerk if we could sit in emergency row seats. She said we could but would have to pay a fee of $75! That’s the first time I have heard of that. Although I know they have invented a new class of travel, between cattle class and business class, called “Premium Economy”. This is where in exchange for an upgrade fee they give you a few more inches of foot room. So now they have found yet another way of screwing a few more dollars out of the customer in the form of charging you for the responsibility of opening the exit in an emergency. Anyway, she said she would put us in a seat with no one behind us so we could fully recline our seats. This turned out to be a euphemism for squashing us into the last seat at the back of the aircraft. Subsequently I didn’t get any sleep in the way back and as a result I am suffering from jet lag. I lasted until dark when I just had to crash out and sleep. I woke up at midnight and couldn’t get back to sleep so I have been up since then just catching up with things.

We have the weekend to get sorted then next week will be truly back in gear.

Happy Day everybody.

Eric.

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