As you probably all know the British airports were opened yesterday after six days closed. The first couple off the plane interviewed last night said, "We've been stranded in Beverly Hills".

Poor things.

"We've been stranded in Beverly Hills".

Given a choice between Brummagem and Beverly Hills to be stranded for a couple of days, i'd take the former over the latter. At least the accent would be fun to study.

It really has been fun listening to all the stories, hasn't it?

I mentioned this in another post, but one of my train friend's (I only see him when we are waiting for the train) sons is with the World Bank and flew to Kyrgyzstan for some business. Well, as you know, that government was overthrown and he had to be flown out by the U.S. military to Belgrade, where he did a little business. Ah...but then the volcano. He flew to Vienna where he was stuck for days. Vienna sounds fun, my friend said, but they were on the phone all day trying to make plans and the communication about flights wasn't good. He finally got into Washington DC at noon today. That was a 2-week trip from Hell for him!

His colleagues were all over the place, as well. At one point he used his cell phone to call a colleague, and they were both in Dubai, but who knew?

I love the stories.

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Restarting was difficult since aircraft and crews were also scattered all over the world. Calamity for people when Mother Nature sneezes! BTW, private aircraft, which operate at lower altitudes, were not grounded, so those with their own planes had the sky to themselves!