Tango airship

On a normal day when you come across some kind of food or drink promotion, people are handing out treats on the street or in the supermarket unusually rather than taking a wide berth it's actually quite exciting and suddenly you find yourself completely changing your route just so you 'happen' to be passing by that person who's handing out the little chocolate tasters or starbucks samples..
Well, if you get my train of thought then you would have taken advantage of the tango promotion on at Paris airport yesterday too!
You know when you have a bottle of water on the plane with you and when you take off it gets all distorted or when you open a tube of cream and it pours out?
Well, 4 cans later at the airport (my logic is based around the fact that I need to hydrate before getting on a long haul flight) and I'm feeling quite hyper from all the sugar, within a couple of hours of being on the plane I have really bad tummy ache and my trousers are feeling pretty tight, Jo looks down and a look of pure horror spreads across her face .. I follow her stare, OMG.. Ha! Unbelievable I have inflated so much I now resemble Violet from willy wonka (who inflates onto a giant blueberry remember?). Try sitting on a plane for 15hours like this..



Mmm anyway, we are in Santiago now, it is VERY hot, Jo slept for a massive 9 hours on the plane (I think the sleeping tablets I fed her worked! Tee hee - though infact I shot myself in the foot because
that's a VERY long time to not have anyone to talk to/play with) so she is feeling good - walked for ages (sweated prefusely) found a starbucks and if you have never had it chai tea frappacino is AMAZING !



Going investigating properly tomorrow so will report back then - one thing I will say however is that they don't seem to have a 'sign' for Chilean pesos so they use $ which is fine but when U.S.$ are widely accepted as much as pesos it kinda freaks you out when something as simple as a bus ticket is $18,000.. Get your head round that.. Plus 670 pesos to the £1- so most people have a few hundred thousand in the bank, a ton is a coin and a monkey doesn't even buy you a diet coke..
Oh and try typing on a keyboard like this... Spot the difference?



- Posted whilst on the road

Location:Mid-flight / Santiago

Repulsive flight from UK to LA

You know us, nothing is ever completely smooth running... The question is do you really want to hear about it? For the first time we were superbly organised in our preparations for our annual excitement, for some unknown reason we were put through our paces before our departure with a mixture of flat car batteries, family members locking themselves out of their homes and a late night trip to a&e for a massive ear infection the night before our flight, this time it was candis turn. If you recollect our honeymoon then you know what we are talking about...

Getting through the above and slightly jaded as a result we head to the airport with tons of time to spare as all flights to the states are under massive security scrutiny since that idiot set himself on fire. Arrive, check in, go through security, eat sushi, head to gate, join long queue, finally get to front to have our tickets checked to be informed that the inflight entertainment was broken, nothing they could do, suggest you buy a book to take on the flight! Yeah, cheers, thanks for that 11.5hrs of Reading?! Unlikely! I'm sure part of the point of flying is to fall into a gormless, numb, brain-dead world watching a movie marathon, so that when you land at your destination you can't for the life of you remember a single film title from the last 6 movies you have somehow managed to view without really realising it...sound familiar? Needless to say the flight was not the most stimulating, add to that the fact that poor Jo had a fat, hairy, cold filled, old fart sat next to her (no I'm not talking about me, the OTHER side!) he spent much of the flight, coughing, sneezing & hocking in her ear, the thrilling part was that whenever he sneezed a cloud of his dandraft enveloped jo's head & left her looking like someone had poured parmasan cheese over her jumper, utterley repulsive! Add to this the fact that there were a couple of jocks sat infront of us who were having a very enthusiastic conversation for much of the flight about power sports which involved them jumping around in their seats like baboons on speed, this wouldn't necessarily be a problem if jos knees weren't taking the full impact? The bonus of being tall in economy! Brilliant.

At the end of the day you will always put up with these things because you know you're going on holiday and it will all be worth while once you get there. In any other environment, you know for a fact that would absolutely NOT even consider it! We are in LA, it's sunny and 72 degrees, worth every minute of dandruff....