Corfu - Travel

The planes were late going and coming. Maybe because things for Easyjet aren’t always easy. Apparently they lost £80 million due to terrorism, so they have to charge people extra for luggage and keep them waiting, because clearly terrorists would not have this nonsense.

On the way out at Gatwick, we found a nice Lebanese restaurant, open at 4 in the morning, when we were expecting everything to be closed. Strangely they served a nice plate of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and in pounds sterling too.

Then at security I wasn’t allowed to bring a bottle of water (too much?) through to another country – maybe it was poisonous? – and had to hold my trousers up as I had to turn my belt along with my watch, wallets and phone over.

After combining my luggage at the gate, because I didn’t read the small print, we waited for the women and children to get on first, and everybody else cos we didn’t really understand what was going on. Then we boarded at the back, because you have to pay more to sit at the front of the plane. Somebody should have told them you are more likely to survive a crash at the back.

Even when on the plane we had to wait – according to the captain for someone who hadn’t got on. Subsequently, they did not one but two headcounts, before they realised that there was no one missing, just an error in the books.

On the flight, there were many bonging noises, which usually indicate whether or not you have to strap yourself in (which would be of no use of in a crash situation), but this seemed not to be the case. We thought it might be some problem with the toilets or some way of waking up the pilot, but we never found out.