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Hotel Modest & Acceptable, Madrid.
Look left…
A wonderful beginning to the day: breakfast with the Minx on the Chiswick High Road. It is such a treat for me to do the small things of life with my Wife. Like having breakfast & a walk.
The usual at Heathrow, this time Terminal One. Heathrow is not an airport that aims to provide facilities for travellers: it is a shopping construct. Flying is the mechanism that brings potential consumers into a concentrated space where they are confronted by shops, too many shops. I am not here to shop! No wonder security can only process one carry-on bag per passenger: the space isn’t designed for travelling in the post 9/11 world. Americans flying to/through the UK, Stateside, check in two carry-on bags. When they arrive at Heathrow, going home, they innocently take their two carry-on bags to security & are sent back out & round to check in one of the two.
This morning British Airways, operating an Air Iberia flight, told me that the new policy is I can only check-in one bag, rather than the historical two, and it will soon cost me £60 per second bag. This is a de facto surcharge. The days of easy travelling have gone, cheap & cheerful is becoming cheap & nasty.
Today’s flight was full-ish, straightforward, boobyism only erupting & in a modest fashion towards the end of the flight, although baggage took 30 minutes to get to the carousel. Alain the Hero was waiting patiently for me & we taxied to the hotel.
Touching base with Director Hernan & the Crafties, now back with complementary room wifi…
Professional Suicide of the Recording Artist:: Posted by jimsabis on April 11, 2007
A very interesting and thoughtful article on a favorite topic of ours: http://www.alternet.org/stories/50416/
I knew Bob Ostertag during my NYC years, liked both Bob & his work.
"Mastery acts on what is below.
Artistry submits to what is above."
