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Post by cariad23 on Jun 23, 2019 5:53:11 GMT
whoops didnt realise hadnt logged in couldnt understand why i had to prove not a robot
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Post by dennisn on Jun 23, 2019 6:05:16 GMT
That camera only does still snapshots. I’ll be posting real-time to tell you all when to look. Hoping to do the other camera at the other end of the harbour too - that one IS live video so I’ll see if I’m sober enough for a jig for you there.
Had an email this morning from Angela, Villa Maria, to say it’s nice and warm and we’ll be in room 4.
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Post by cariad23 on Jun 23, 2019 6:40:48 GMT
re sept 6th our flight home not until 19=50 hrs might have time to pop down to troulos for quick hello in the afternoon, or should we come to the airport and be waiting at the end of the red carpet
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Post by dennisn on Jun 23, 2019 6:51:37 GMT
We’re supposed to land at 12:40 (TUI, Birmingham) but it’s often a little later. Doing red carpet for us could mean an extra few hours hanging around the airport? Then risking meeting me - remember I have six Baileys on the flight, coupled with pleasure at arriving in Skiathos might wind up my usually charming nature? I’ll be more calm a couple of hours later in Troulos but that’ll be pushing your luck for checkin.
However, it would be lovely to meet albeit briefly, so use your skill and judgement accordingly.
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Post by dennisn on Jun 23, 2019 7:23:15 GMT
By the way, because I don't worry too much about "off topic", have any of you any thoughts about the charity stuff with the tour operators?
Every year, first my online booking automatically includes a donation to whatever TUI are supporting - I have to untick it. Then on the plane home, it's please help our charity by putting your spare coins in a box. And on the transfer coach home to the airport, they pass round a collecting box for their charity on the island, dogs, cats, donkeys. Now I'm a grump and a cynic - they say they are supporting whatever, but if it's our donations, what supporting are they doing? And anyway, they wouldn't support the webcam when I asked them to, they could have had a nice banner on the view saying it was supported by TUI, your favourite holiday blah, blah, blah and click here to book, etc, etc, etc. So GRUMP to the lot of them!!!
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Post by cariad23 on Jun 23, 2019 11:20:31 GMT
i always donate to skiathos cats welfare when there , they do an amazing job neutering so many cats every year. i also donate food at xmas in lieu of a present for a cat loving friend. this year hope to go to the dog shelter to walk a dog I choose my charity ! We'll be having a taxi to the airport im afraid i stopped doing coach transfers years ago, all that silly collect suitcases at 8-30 am when you have all day there, and hanging around for ages for people to find correct coach, and as for reps silly jokes and telling facts about the place i probably know better than her, dont get me started ! Do i qualify for grumpy old git club?
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Post by balddave on Jun 23, 2019 11:39:31 GMT
I tend to agree with Dennis, does anyone know anybody who’s actually won a decent prize off the in flight ‘ charity scratch cards’ , we do tend to put loose change in the bag at the end of the flight home in good faith , maybe airlines should include a page in the inflight magazine highlighting where charity money was used.
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Post by exgreekgod on Jun 23, 2019 18:46:02 GMT
i always donate to skiathos cats welfare when there , they do an amazing job neutering so many cats every year. i also donate food at xmas in lieu of a present for a cat loving friend. this year hope to go to the dog shelter to walk a dog I choose my charity ! We'll be having a taxi to the airport im afraid i stopped doing coach transfers years ago, all that silly collect suitcases at 8-30 am when you have all day there, and hanging around for ages for people to find correct coach, and as for reps silly jokes and telling facts about the place i probably know better than her, dont get me started ! Do i qualify for grumpy old git club? I think grumpy old got git should mean someone who's been around a bit and maybe learnt the hard way!
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Post by dennisn on Jun 23, 2019 18:56:40 GMT
Cariad you are a perfect grumpy old git. Here’s my top rep’s fact. The bus fare is two Euros because several years ago they bought a huge supply of two Euro tickets and need to use them up. And the scratch cards - we bought them on our first flight to enjoy the fun, and had a winner, £2 I think (but Elderly memory fails me, might have been a bit more). They wouldn’t give us the cash - all you can do with the win is either get the £10,000, or use the £2 to buy more scratch cards. So now I waste my money on Baileys!
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Post by bvrc on Jun 23, 2019 19:31:55 GMT
I’m so looking forward to your holiday Dennis, and more importantly your updates 😄
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Post by dennisn on Jun 24, 2019 16:46:01 GMT
Now here's good cause for grumpyoldgitting.
I selected our seats for this Friday's flight out (and the return one too). For our trip in September I shall select seats also, but I was waiting until after our flight this week to make sure I chose my window seat with a real live window - Too often I have selected a window seat which has turned out to be the only window seat on the plane without an actual window. So this time we have row 13, which to the best of my guesswork is a window (last time I chose row 16 which was the only one on the plane without a window).
So I was waiting until we did this week's flight, then I'd select our September seats after inspecting the plane seating actual layout. I did indeed know the September select seat thingy opened at about the time we leave now, but I've just got the email saying it's open and go choose. I wasn't going to, in order to be sure of a window, but I've just had a look and selection opened on 22nd June, day before yesterday, and all the extra space seats (which I don't want) are gone and all the extra legroom seats (which I don't want) are gone also. BUT also already gone are almost every "window" seat in rows 12 to 17, the rows I select for a seat just in front of the wing root. GRUMP!! Indeed, Mega Grump!! I have now had to use my skill and judgement to select a window seat blindly hoping. GRRR, MEGA GRUMP!!!
This is a picture they show of doing select a seat. Now, am I over interpreting things, or am I entitled to believe that this picture shows a seat with a window?
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Post by cariad23 on Jun 24, 2019 18:00:19 GMT
just a general picture i think, i booked window and middle sea one year , we had window but over he wing so no view . i try to book seats in two's now
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Post by Tre on Jun 24, 2019 19:14:49 GMT
I just hate that you have to pay (with TC anyway) if you don’t happen to agree with the seats they have chosen for you. OH is 6’ 2” so we actually like an aisle & a middle. No chance. Paid for Extra legroom last time but it adds nearly £100 to the cost! I think it’s going to cost us when our check In opens next week........
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Post by dennisn on Jun 24, 2019 21:58:06 GMT
Quite a conundrum I think. Some people just want to get on a plane going the right way, others have varying seat requirements.
For me, I start with a fear of flying, so I jeopardise my trousers whenever there is turbulence inflight. I was given a tip many years ago - get into a seat over the wing, that’s where turbulence has its smallest effect. So that’s what I aim for. Strangely for someone afraid of heights, I feel a need to be able to see out and down towards the ground, so window seat is on my list. And I travel eastwards as per POSH - Port Out, Starboard Home. It saves sun blindness. I don’t need extra legroom, but I’d love to be able to pull my table down and not get a visible bruise on my belly!!! I’m not such a bad flyer these days, but I still grip my seat and seat frame for takeoff. Landing for some reason is comforting - I know we’re getting safer and safer the lower we go.
So I’m happy to pay for my seat of choice, window at the leading edge of the wing root, port out, starboard home. And I no longer get myself into a drunken haze in Departures.
All of which is undoubtedly rubbish. The real problem is they still don’t do 500mph trains to Skiathos. And won’t do in my lifetime.
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Post by kelso on Jun 25, 2019 6:18:10 GMT
I hope your posh selection doesn't backfire on you Dennis, as it seems a few flights have been landing from the Xanemos end recently. By the way, my brother who is ex RAF always used to say that it is safer to sit in the rear. After all, when did you ever hear of a plane backing into a mountain? Just a thought. Bob
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