This story is dedicated to my travel accompaniment.
Are there any difficulties to notice?. No way with good companion!
The trip in one word:
INTERRUPTIONS
"The theme with this story is to spend a day in sunny England, yes and to catch something new for the visited airports map, well, we will see!."
A relaxed hello, dear readers,
no foreign language needed this time!.
It feels like just yesterday since I was back at the homebase from the Ukraine.
And here is the routing for the first part of the new story:
Thanx to as usual:
http://www.gcmap.com/
Well, is it late in the evening or early in the morning?.
Anyway, no time to lose!.
Wednesday, 04.09.2013
BSL (EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg)
LGW (Your London Airport-Gatwick)
Service EZS 8430 operated by EasyJetSwitzerland
Scheduled: 06.50 // 07.20
Here are the actual visited countries:
VISITED COUNTRIES auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
Some visited airports:
Visited Airports II auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
And some more:
Visited airports auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
And this is the latest edition about the Tripreporter 2013 data:
TRIPREPORTER 2013 auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
Ok, these incorruptible machine named cellphone confirmed my first thoughts.
It´s early in the morning, very early in the morning.
02.30 am, but it´s never ever to early for a day in the air, isn´t it?.
Not that much traffic, lucky me and pretty early, too at the first station today.
The car should spend the day at F3, french side, open air, always a bit scary when you read about broken and damaged cars. See you in the very same conditions, hopefully!.
The screen looks like ok, nothing to notice about any disruptions.
A warm welcome for todays travel companion.
I´am moving on the development track, I´am faster!.
OLCI is done and the paper is printed at the homebase,
that´s the rule here.
It´s nowadays possible also for flights from the Swiss sector to go through the usually less used French security check, what is recommendable and works also perfect today.
Anything special on the apron?
No time to wait at passport check.
No lounge here on offer, at least today.
Booking is done via the Easy homepage directly, the fare for this leg is just 35.00 Euro´s
Gate 22 it is today.
And it feels good to see the sun coming up behind the plane
6.45 am, short ahead to schedule, 1.00 hour only by "Topswiss". Leaving the "EuroAirport
Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg" from the 3900 meters runway "One-Five".
14 degrees and clear sky, not bad, isn´t it?.
Yeah, we are in a good mood!.
So we have HB-JYC to go, one of these very few machines without an individual name!. It´s an A319 like on schedule.
Leg no. 94 on type and new to the log.
With EZY and EZS since 20.07.2011. 15 planes on type are in the fleet and there are no stories to show.
Up for the clear sky and that feels really good.
Some cabin details
FA´s are all together ok, but not yet something special.
Three women, one elder french, one younger german, one also younger eastern European and one younger male.
Service is BOB.
25F, the mixed orange grey fabric seats are clean so far.
The legroom is low, nothing else expected and the safety card
Cockpit crew sounds eastern European to me. The "Pilot" with a nice welcome after boarding. All cabin crew is introduced by name. He is once again to hear nice inflight.
No route or flightlevel info.
The load is very close to 100% as it usually is with Easy and there are also some biz people to see.
Traveller ok and no cloud to notice at all
The flight is much too fast over. Really?. Really, with these nice companion and the english island coming in sight.
Flat lands close to "Gatwick, your London airport".
Touchdown at the 3316 meters "Zero-Eight-Right". 7.10 am,
ten minutes ahead to schedule.
Light fog, 11 degrees and what about clouds?. No way, never ever in England!
Interesting planes on the apron and up for the bridge,
a first for me
The electronic passport check works swiftly, close to no time to wait.
Now that´s a good idea
The next flight is BE802, departure at 09.05 am for Newquay.
Sounds perfectly good with these nice weather conditions to spend a day around the long cornish beaches. Sun, wind, nice companion, I had already talked about?. Maybe a cup of tea or two, scones in the afternoon, oh yes!.
We are prepared for a delay on the EZY service what happens from time to time but thankfully not today.
Check-In is also done online, boarding papers printed.
But we decided to give the SSK´s a try, just to check for better seats.
Well, there is no real need to check for better seats on a cancelled flight, isn´t it?.
That´s exactly what the SSK screen shows us now.
And that´s also exactly not what we are prepared for.
But it´s true.
A view for the screen confirmed, not the best day for BE, so it looks like.
The inbound from Guernsey cancelled. No notice at all for the inbound from Newquay, our plane, after the scheduled arrival time
Self service it is now. Are there any other flights to Newquay today ex LGW?. Not at all.
Further for the BE desk, where the nevertheless nice elder agent apologized for several times.
The plane goes tech on yesterday´s evening service to Newquay and is still grounded there.
To follow the details here:
http://avherald.com/h?article=467ee1f9&opt=0
There is no other plane available.
A voucher is handed, what is swiftly exchanged at the airport shop around the corner for water, chips and sandwich, twice
Well, we make the best of it, isn´t it?. The weather is nice and we are heading for the beach.
Ok, not the Newquay beach, but there is another interesting beach not that far away.
Well, the second preference after the plane is the train.
First Capital Connect fills the gap!
Is this Cornwall after all or maybe Brighton?
Ok, it´s Brighton!
Where the church towers are high and the sky is blue
Where the beach is really nice and the houses are stylish
Where they are prepared for sunny weather like it always is!
Where you take you´re board or maybe a ship?
Where you have fish soup or fresh dressed crabs also suitable for home, no way, freezing!
Where you have a smoke prior to the "Punch and Judy" show
Where you have cooked to perfection fish and chips and a strange bridge to nowhere in the distance
Where there is something like a Brighton pier on offer
And where you should better take off one of you´re shirts, it´s so hot here
And this looks like so english to me, perfect
What about a calm and quiet night at the "Helter Skelter Horror Hotel?". But wait, I should check the reviews first!
And this is definitely a historic place
We are scary, yes, about a possible sunburn!
How to enjoy the beach english style
Take a chair, please
Simply the best fish and chips or maybe tea and cake?
Well, this was a swift move to India!
The Royal Pavillon
Strange, this is England after all
But it feels certainly much more like India
And the park is also nice
Well guarded
No, no way, absolutely no way to miss cream tea and scones in England
Lovely, isn´t it?
Searching for the way back to the train station through the old town
Druids in Italy, really?
Better take the right "Lane" now
Just a sugar infusion
Now that´s also something for me, a delicious veg self service buffet
And that´s the way to go now
Looks like modern, isn´t it?
Well, more to come, hopefully soon.
Bye now.
The TRIPREPORTER
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