I woke up this Monday morning and London was covered under a 20cm thick snow blanket. Gladly, I did not have to go to the airport today. It would have been pointless.
As a continuously travelling consultant I have been through lots and lots of mini-catastrophies - blizzards, severe thunderstorms, flooding, even the Australian bushfires. In travel terms this means, delayed or cancelled planes, blocked roads, no trains, rental car companies without cars, and so on. Just to name a few:
- Having boarded a 19.00 flight from Heathrow to Vienna. Thunderstorm and having to wait for hours on the plane only to find it cancelled 5 hours later, with no public transport at the airport and queues for a taxi which were outrageous.
- Being on a flight to Chicago and after many hours of flying and already deeply over Canada the pilot suddenly annouces that we are flying back to London as all the airports in North America a closed due to a blizzard.
- Storms over Europe. Most flights got cancelled. I got on one and the flight was so bumpy that most passengers had to throw up and the stewardesses walked around disposing all those bags. I saw many passengers pray.
- Being surrounded by fires on a road somewhere between Sydney and Brisbane.
What one learns is to stay calm in any situation. There is always a way out somehow. And I need to admit, I just love those irregularities (once in a while anyway). It spices up one's life a little and adds a bit of thrill to it.
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