LPW 2011 carpooling

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Fri Aug 19 13:37:10 BST 2011


On 19/08/11 13:14, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:57:16AM +0100, James Laver wrote:
>
>> If you're being sensible and you have the money, fly from city, else heathrow, else gatwick, else luton, else stansted. In that order, preferably avoiding scumming it from stansted. If you're using another airport and you don't happen to live near euston, don't even think about any of the others.
>
> FWIW, my order of preference for travelling to and from the Netherlands
> would be Eurostar / City / Gatwick / Lydd (sorry, London Ashford) / boat
> from Harwich and failing that, don't travel.
>
> Heathrow is both deeply unpleasant and a pain in the arse to get to.
> Gatwick is also a pain in the arse to get to unless you live where I do,
> but at least once you're there it is just about bearable.  I'd only use
> Heathrow, Luton, or Stansted if I was being paid to do so.
>

Agreed, but always remember the "convenience and speed" of flying is 
illusory. Old Chinese Aviator, he say: "Time to spare? Go by Air!". 
Particularly true now in these paranoid times.

Dirk


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