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afowles
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: sitting in an airport |
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I figure everyone here has had their share of airport sitting. I'm sitting in O'Hare right now, eventually en route to South Korea after three years of teaching in Poland.
How do you like to pass the time in airports? I, as you can see, like to use the internet. Sometimes read, although I prefer to read on the plane. The food is too expensive, but sometimes a little nibble is good.
Any fun airport stories? |
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gmjones
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: UK
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| I like to spend a considerable portion of my cash on perfume and other things that I sooooo don't need but figure I might not be able to get wherever I am going... not a good excuse, but an excuse all the same! |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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Location: Seoul, South Korea and Myanmar for a bit
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Getting drunk always works, but be careful to remember where you put your bags.
Other ideas:
Taking that last chance to have one of whatever it is that they don't sell where you're going. Leaving Italy, I always have to have that last italian ice cream.. one last beer when leaving England, etc...
In O'hare, you can do anything- it's like a small city. There are bars, gyms, a cinema...
If you're passing through Miami or Houston on the way to points south, it can be a good time to shake the dust off your Spanish...
Talk to strangers...
Send all the post cards you forgot to send when you really were in an exotic local...
Best,
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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: finally home-ish
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The Cusco airport has a little massage center. Aaaaaaah. In Tokyo, there are massage chairs. In San Francisco, my dear sweet ex boyfriend upgraded me to business class once, so I got to hang out in their poncy lounge and drink coctails. I think Miami has a gym, but it was closed the last time I was there.
And of course I am always happy to find shower facilities in airports!
I just recently had a 12-hour layover in Lima, and I have decided that it is The Most Boring Airport on the Planet. At least there is a 24-hour internet center, which of course charges about 60 times more than anywhere else in the country.
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| I like to read, people-watch, try to find the least putrid coffee and wonder if the plane will crash. |
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JZer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| How do you like to pass the time in airports? I, as you can see, like to use the internet. Sometimes read, although I prefer to read on the plane. The food is too expensive, but sometimes a little nibble is good. |
In most airports the internet is outrageous as well. |
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JZer
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| afowles, so where are you going in South Korea. I am near Cheon an. |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: What you can do at an airport - watch planes! |
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In practically any of the four terminals at London's Heathrow Airport, the main hobby for travellers is looking at magazines, crumpling their pages, putting them back on the shelves somewhat carelessly, watching (if not hearing) them fall to the floor, then just walking out of the outlet without even caring. I reckon they ought to be made to pay for what they do, so that they would be disinclined to do the same in future.
As for me, I hardly spend any time in airports, but I certainly would steer clear of phones that accepted credit cards, not to mention the internet cafes where you have to buy a membership card you will never have any occasion to use again before it expires in a year's time.
One might as well go to the spectators' gallery and lazily watch planes take-off and land for free! |
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Gregor
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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| I'm sitting in O'Hare right now, eventually en route to South Korea after three years of teaching in Poland. |
Isn't O'Hare in Chicago? How did you manage to put that between Korea and Poland? :-)
I hate airport sitting after, say, an hour. I don't want to get drunk because if I fly drunk I get sick. I don't mind having a bite to eat if I'm hungry, but what really sucks is if you're going from one country to another, with an interim country with its own currency. If you have to sit in THAT country, you're out of luck because you don't have any of their money. You can get a little bit, but whatever you don't spend is a waste once you get back on the plane.
This happened to me when I was in Japan, between the US and Vietnam. The currency changers didn't have any Vietnamese Dong, and I had no use or desire for Japanese Yen.
Anyway, I'll usually just look at the book shops or stationery shop. Wander around exploring the airport, and so on.
Airport sitting is just the purgatory that we have to put up with, I guess. |
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mondrian
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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Location: "was that beautiful coastal city in the NE of China"
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SLEEP!
Use my on-board luggage as a pillow. Seal up all my pockets and sleep.
I usually count past memories of airport | |
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