The Long Journey Home
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Being in the travel industry you of course get to travel all around the globe and often. With the mandate comes general pitfalls any traveller every so often encounters - luggage lost or in another continent, delayed or cancelled flights and hotels that have no records of your booking. In all my time as a travel journalist I have never feared that I would not be able to home.
This is my story about last Christmas, as many of you remember the Christmas traffic was hit hard by the Ash Cloud from Iceland that forced most of northern Europe to impose a no-fly area. This notably impacted a lot of peoples prepared vacations and seasonal festivities with friends and families. I for one missed an opportunity at being a photographer at a really exclusive wedding.
I managed to get halfway to this marriage ceremony when I got locked down on the ground by this ad hoc no-fly order and taking the rest of the journey by car was out of the question as it was both too dangerous roads as well as not being able to promise our coming to a destination on time.
With this dispiriting revelation I resolved to make my way back home, but to our horror I found that i had very little ideas on how to journey between countries outside flying.
We managed to chance upon a motel not that far away from the airfield where I commenced my investigation in how I could get home.
My first few phone calls went to local businesses trying to locate travel plans in the popular directions of UK, I knew I could not travel all the way by train as there was trouble with the transfer under the tunnel at this time. It did not take me long until I got a few ideas and I ended up travelling with several "young" kids in a rented van. They were this happy-go-lucky youth that did not worry too much about life and saw this whole thing as "just another big adventure".
One of the guys in the van told me that he had been using a service that I could use to get the last bit of the way home, whilst he was not sure as it usually required arriving at an airfield and booking well in advance, this was airport transportations. He also pointed out that I may be in luck due to nobody could fly, then it would also be logical that no one would be using the particular services. And then he shaped his hand in a Star Trek V-greeting that Spock uses and winked at me.
When we stopped later that night I called one of these services and tried to locate this service, i was however met by a very grouchy and moody voice that obviously had a little too much of a bad day with folks complaining about the Ash Cloud to bother with someone like me a few countries away. I called [airport 2 keyword] and got greeted by a very excited young woman happy to refer me to a company that arranged such travel. I explained my situation and she was more than happy to suggest places where they could meet me and arrange for our travel to my final destination.
After the kids in the van dropped me off and a short tunnel trip later I was met by the driver that jested that I should have booked their travel all the way instead now that a flight-ban was in effect. We had a pleasant journey on our way home and ever since then I have used airstrip Transfer Services and made sure I book them well in advance. Now they are available at most airports and nearly every kingdom on the planet, but they were quite new when we used their business.
Something I do know as a traveller, the last stretch of your journey is invariably the hardest - you only want to get home, you have nothing else on your mind but turning that key that unlocks your front door and step in to your home. Trust me when I say that using the particular services makes this last leg of your journey quite comfortable and the drivers are excellent.
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