Chamonix training session 1 - Leeds-London-Geneva-Chamonix
24/02/06 - the journey
18:25 Five minutes before check-in was going to close, and the shuttle bus that was going to take me from Luton Park Station to Luton Airport hadn't yet arrived. I ask the gently spoken Scottish woman who had guided me off the Train how long the bus would be. 5 minutes she replied. I followed up by asking how long will it take to get to the airport once on the bus, 5 minutes she replied again. So a quick calculation 5 minute wait + 5 minute on bus= 10 minutes in total which meant I would be 5 minutes late for check-in.
Can’t we just take a taxi I groaned? Amazingly enough there was one standing 30 seconds away which got me there within seconds of check-in and also cost me dinner for that night £7 for a 4 minute run!
19:00 - Low fare-high care on the plane
Lovely smooth flight for a low cost airline I even had a lovely air stewardess asking me if I wanted a feel around of her equipment, yes please I said, then she pulled out the life jackets and the oxygen masks.
While on the flight I thought I would do a good deed for the day, spending half the flight time in attempting to convert the gentleman sitting next to me, clearly a avid skier, to the enlightened world of snowboarding...to no avail though. He did however make a donation on the justgiving.com/adil website.
22:00 Before arriving in Geneva, I recalled the one piece of advice I was given by a friend - not to end up with Swiss franks because after this brief trip through Switzerland they would be useless for the rest of the journey. I appreciated this fact, however I got off the plane and wasn't able to find a cash exchange anywhere. The ATM was my only bet of obtaining some Euros to pay the bus driver for the transfer. In a state of panic on realising that the machine didn't deal in euros, I asked the Airport assistant who had helped me off the plane to help me pull out 100 Swiss franks instead! Incidentally the bus driver didn't take the franks.
1.5 hours later I was in Chamonix with 100 Swiss franks in my pocket and a feeling that it’s only going to get easier from now on!
18:25 Five minutes before check-in was going to close, and the shuttle bus that was going to take me from Luton Park Station to Luton Airport hadn't yet arrived. I ask the gently spoken Scottish woman who had guided me off the Train how long the bus would be. 5 minutes she replied. I followed up by asking how long will it take to get to the airport once on the bus, 5 minutes she replied again. So a quick calculation 5 minute wait + 5 minute on bus= 10 minutes in total which meant I would be 5 minutes late for check-in.
Can’t we just take a taxi I groaned? Amazingly enough there was one standing 30 seconds away which got me there within seconds of check-in and also cost me dinner for that night £7 for a 4 minute run!
19:00 - Low fare-high care on the plane
Lovely smooth flight for a low cost airline I even had a lovely air stewardess asking me if I wanted a feel around of her equipment, yes please I said, then she pulled out the life jackets and the oxygen masks.
While on the flight I thought I would do a good deed for the day, spending half the flight time in attempting to convert the gentleman sitting next to me, clearly a avid skier, to the enlightened world of snowboarding...to no avail though. He did however make a donation on the justgiving.com/adil website.
22:00 Before arriving in Geneva, I recalled the one piece of advice I was given by a friend - not to end up with Swiss franks because after this brief trip through Switzerland they would be useless for the rest of the journey. I appreciated this fact, however I got off the plane and wasn't able to find a cash exchange anywhere. The ATM was my only bet of obtaining some Euros to pay the bus driver for the transfer. In a state of panic on realising that the machine didn't deal in euros, I asked the Airport assistant who had helped me off the plane to help me pull out 100 Swiss franks instead! Incidentally the bus driver didn't take the franks.
1.5 hours later I was in Chamonix with 100 Swiss franks in my pocket and a feeling that it’s only going to get easier from now on!
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