Another bank holiday gave me yet another chance to sample the delights that UK airports have to offer. This time the travel was for ‘pleasure' and I at least had the company of family and friends to sweeten the pill.
However, a 4.30am check in followed by 12 hours in Manchester Airport, where they evidently adopt the same approach to the provision of seating as airlines use when overbooking flights, was sufficient to turn even my normally very well behaved six year old into Attila the Hun (only joking Ellie!). I must confess that I am not one to keep my mobile phone switched on or the Blackberry by the sun bed when I am away with my family. Nevertheless, I found that over the course of the ten days I was away from the office I could not escape entirely. Before I went away I had been devoting a lot o...
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