Volcanic Ash

[moorfield]

Can't you just get the cross-channel ferry? (*) I mean Holland isn't exactly Terra del Fuego.

(*) or Amsterdam to Harwich (?)

Considered but rapidly dismissed.

Don't particularly want to end up in Harwich at 7am on a Friday morning.

Could stay but I *have* to get home cos the missus and I have a (fortunately UK based) weekend away sans enfants long planned.

[cailin maith]

just got back from the airport, were mean't to be spending a long weekend in nice coat that jacket with family but all flights into the smoke are cancelled

oh well, got back home, logged in, metre's ticking

Milan.

Is that English?

[Mich the Tester]

Considered but rapidly dismissed.

Don't particularly want to end up in Harwich at 7am on a Friday morning.

Could stay but I *have* to get home cos the missus and I have a (fortunately UK based) weekend away sans enfants long planned.

Try Ijmuiden to Newcastle. http://www.dfdsseaways.nl/

OK, so you arrive in Newcastle, but onward travel should be easier than from Harwich.

[NotAllThere]

Only while the wind is from the East.

All becomes clear. Sauron lives in Iceland.

[portseven]

If all the ash is at 50,000ft, why can't they just fly a bit lower?

[Paddy]

If all the ash is at 50,000ft, why can't they just fly a bit lower?

Because of downdraft dispersal .

[BlasterBates]

The last eruption lasted more than a year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...an-a-year.html

Does this mean a boom in ferries?

P&O shares anyone?

[fullyautomatix]

My flight tomorrow has been cancelled, which means a miserable weekend here in UK rather than in Germany

[Scrag Meister]

My step daughter is away in Gran Canaria, and is not sure if there will be flights back to UK on Sunday, when she is supposed to be travelling.

That means a miserable few days in Gran Canaria.... hang on wait a minute.

I am sure she is gutted.... NOT!!!

Rung her mother saying she may need some more money!! So she can stay a bit longer.

Hopefully she can claim on her travel insurance or the airline can supply some things.

[Churchill]

My step daughter is away in Gran Canaria, and is not sure if there will be flights back to UK on Sunday, when she is supposed to be travelling.

That means a miserable few days in Gran Canaria.... hang on wait a minute.

I am sure she is gutted.... NOT!!!

Rung her mother saying she may need some more money!! So she can stay a bit longer.

Hopefully she can claim on her travel insurance or the airline can supply some things.

Or you can put some money in her account you tight sod!