Out and About July 2022 issue199
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
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24 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA DEE’S TRAVELS<br />
DEE’S TRAVELS<br />
LIVING ABROAD –<br />
MORE AIRPORT TALES<br />
We are often faced with the choice –<br />
affordability or comfort. I’m all for<br />
taking a trip which might mean<br />
three stop overs between Alicante <strong>and</strong><br />
Paris if we can get there for under<br />
a fiver, but I have a hard time<br />
convincing the DH (Dear<br />
Husb<strong>and</strong>) to agree.<br />
I guess I should<br />
admit<br />
my<br />
backpacking days<br />
are over (not that I<br />
have ever owned<br />
one) <strong>and</strong> I’m<br />
convinced exercise<br />
is dangerous, <strong>and</strong><br />
do as little walking<br />
as is humanly<br />
possible. That’s<br />
probably why I like<br />
airports <strong>and</strong> flying.<br />
Of course, when you<br />
travel cheap, they take<br />
great delight in parking the<br />
planes as far away as humanly<br />
possible. In some airports they do have<br />
signs that helpfully tell you how long it<br />
will take to walk to Gate ZZZ 162, but, in<br />
my experience, those times only apply to<br />
Olympic marathon runners. I can double<br />
that time with ease.<br />
This month I was going to tell you about<br />
my most horrendous flight. It was only<br />
planned as a short one-hour flight from a<br />
small airport outside Durban, South Africa<br />
up into the Drakensburg Mountains to film<br />
a five-star hotel as part of a video for an<br />
international tourist convention.<br />
As we lugged the camera equipment<br />
across the apron, I was dismayed to<br />
see it was a one engine prop.<br />
I know I’m a coward, but<br />
I do prefer two engines<br />
on my planes – just<br />
in case. The pilot<br />
paused, looked at<br />
the mountain of<br />
flight cases <strong>and</strong><br />
stopped his preflight<br />
checks.<br />
“We’ll need a<br />
bigger plane.”<br />
I breathed a<br />
sigh of relief as<br />
the second one<br />
had two engines,<br />
presumably to<br />
launch its larger<br />
fuselage into the air. Not<br />
that it was much bigger<br />
with seats for only eight, <strong>and</strong> the<br />
equipment took up three of them plus<br />
the cargo hold.<br />
I was a little alarmed to find that my safety<br />
belt was not attached to anything but there<br />
was little I could do about that.<br />
It was a bright, sunny day as we took off at<br />
6am, but that soon changed to a thick, grey<br />
fog <strong>and</strong> we were flying blind. Our charming<br />
young pilot, whom I suspected was on day<br />
release from kindergarten, asked if we could<br />
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