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May 23rd, 2006 by Daithí | Filed under Lost and Found.Next month, I’m flying from Vienna to Galway, and it turned out that the least expensive route was Vienna-Manchester-Galway, with Aer Arann looking after the Manchester-Galway part of the trip. Now, with this interesting little story from the Guardian, things could get quite interesting.
Our story begins with a man with an ordinary name (Andy Parsons) trying to make an ordinary enough journey, from France (Angers) to Manchester. First, he was changed to Nantes (by bus), then flown to Ireland (Cork), spent a night there, sent by taxi to Waterford (2 hours), then by bus to Dublin (3 hours) and finally flown to Manchester. It took 30 hours.
If I end up blogging from Boston waiting for a boat to Havana in order to complete my Manchester-Galway journey, don’t say you weren’t warned..
(There’s an awful Gaeilge/Béarla pun in the title, if you’re amused by such things. If not, then I beg your forgiveness)
Maybe they mistook him for Tony Parsons and were trying to cause him as much hassle as they could without beating him over the head with the Oxford English dictionary. I’d say he got off lightly.