The advantages of flying
Whilst I accept that flying isn't the most environmentally friendly thing that you can do, it does have one big advantage over other forms of travel - speed.
Today we were flying down to see our very good friends S&N in Cornwall and were able to fly from Gatwick to Newquay direct.
Had we been driving, the journey would have taken between 4 and five hours!
But instead, we just had a short drive from home (which we left at 10.30 am) to the long stay car-park at Gatwick North Terminal; a short bus trip from the car park to the airport; and then having navigated ourselves through airport security and waited for our flight to be called we were soon on the aircraft.
The rubber band having been tightly wound, we were soon hurtling down the runway (after a short delay of about 20 mins on the runway whilst the "bigger" jets took off and landed) and Newquay bound. The flight itself was less than an hour!
Newquay is only a small airport and so within 15 minutes we had our suitcase and N was there to meet us for the 20 minute drive to their cottage in Ladock were we arrived just after 3 o'clock.
And so the whole journey had only taken us four and a half hours - FOUR & A HALF HOURS!!! I could have driven quicker.
3 comments:
Having been such a fantastic dad and checking all my essays for my degree, you would think you would proof read your own writing before publishing it on an open site, with sections that don't make sense. Please re-read and make any appropriate corrections
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It is difficult to demonstrate in my response that I am typing with "gritted teeth" but here goes.
"Thank you dear LLBB, how kind of you to point out my shortcomings."
Look out for a forthcoming article on this Blog - "University essays - before & after"!!
I don't feel the message I sent was read with love that it had in it. I did say how fantastic you were, and I was trying to save you from looking silly by making a simple typing error. I felt this was important as you are so good at remarking on my major typing errors and spending much of your value time re-writing my essays for me!!
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