Travel sickness
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 10:42 Last week, following visits to Brussels and Madrid, I had a six-hour round trip to Bristol to film a 30-second soundbite. (The actual recording took about ten minutes.)
Pah! My UK record is a ten-hour round trip to record a similar bite-sized interview for a local TV programme.
After travelling from Cambridgeshire to London I caught a train from Paddington and arrived in Plymouth shortly after lunch. I took a taxi to the pub where the programme was being filmed, hung around for an hour or so, recorded my piece, got a taxi back to the station, and arrived home via London some five hours later.
In the same vein, my all-time record is the time it took to fly to Dublin, stay overnight and fly home for what turned out to be a 20-second comment on Sky News.
For the remainder of this week I shall be in Scotland, but not on business. After all that travelling, I need a little rest and recuperation.
Feel free to talk among yourselves.
Reader Comments (2)
I found it odd recently when I bought some travel sickness tablets from Boots and found one of the ingredients was tobacco.
Tobacco soothes a lot of indigestion cramps and stomach problems quickly - and it has a whole host of other ailments and illnesses it can treat as well. Too bad people are so foolish these days to not understand the proper use of a natural herb like tobacco, it can even help with appetite cravings and feign off obesity. Notice now that they have snatched away everone's cigarettes, the entire population is ballooning in weight as a result.