Lots of people hate Heathrow airport, I'm sure I'm not unique there. But I must say, I want to textend my blanket hate to all airports.
Today started witha 4:45 a.m. cab ride to Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Yes, 4:45, and you don't know the best part yet: at 5:15, I had a meeting with my boss at said airport. Now, bossman is a nice guy and all, but *he* sedately went to sleep well before midnight. *I*, on the other hand, was absolutely determined to try going to the ice bar in Club Uniq - because everyone should wear metallic, futuristing, insulating cloaks, stand around pillars of ice, with cold glasses filled with vodka concoctions. And then, apparently, they should enjoy a cover band that probalby isn't that enjoyable. Most importantly, people with early flights should under no circumstances come home before 2 a.m., at which time they will remember that they have packed *nothing* yet and are lucky they remember the code for the safe (which contains passport...)
But. I should be discouraged from booking flights. Who in their right mind decides that Helsinki - Frankfurt - London - Stuttgart is even remotely reasonable? People who get lured by cheap flights and lots of aeroplan points, I guess. So Frankfurt had extra special security, including American-style shoe taking-off, being patted down by a border person, and all this at security places that don't normally exist. Portable security! And lots of extra passport checks. Weird.
And now, I kill time at Heathrow. Which I hate most of all. For many reasons, including that my internet time is running out again already, and I feed the slot a mixture of pound and euro coins like it's bulimic. So the rest of the bitching? some other time.