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Trains FTW
https://www.seat61.com/Spain.htm#london-to-menorca-or-majorca-by-train in your case. Eurostar have started taking bikes on the same train (with some complications). Does take longer but no airport shit.
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… flying. Despite being a Civil Engineer with a strong grasp on hazards, risks and also in Mechanical Engineering, it worries the life out of me.
And then add to that the whole process is addled with rigmarole - queue, bag drop, queue, security (with people who seemingly have never flown before or who somehow missed the 2006 news about the liquid bomb terror plot), queue, passport control (with people who can’t answer basic questions like “when will you fly home”), queue, board (with people who then have to rifle through their bag for passport and boarding pass, despite repeated requests to the contrary by the ground staff at the gate), queue, get seated. Then do most of that in reverse at the destination. Probably a good deal later than expected, if at all.
Our flight last Friday was cancelled due to weather in Europe (other carriers flew from and into the same airports), so we had to fly at 7am from Stansted. Then yesterday, we were delayed by two hours because the fuel gauge was broken and Engineers had to make manual checks on the tarmac.
I’m off to Mallorca with the bike, end of this month, and after that my better half will have to make exceptionally strong arguments for me to book on a flight within the next 12months. Fucking sick of it.
Oh, and Doncaster. Absolute fucking shithole where all the blokes walk round either asking for change or looking for a fight.