weekly commute

[Ignis Fatuus]

I used to a commute from UK to NL although later I stayed in NL at the weekends. Flying was a pain and I found driving much easier. I could leave the UK at about 10pm Sunday, get at least one hour's snooze on the ferry and get to the house in NL by 5am or even 4am; time enough for anther snooze.

Door to door time, there was little difference between driving and flying. It also meant that on the way back I could pick up chips with mayonnaise in Belgium and be back in the UK by 8pm

I sometimes did something like that too, when I lived in SE England and worked in NL. Now I live in Scotland and work in northern NL, so driving is not on.

I could drive to Newcastle and get the overnight ferry, but apart from the cost, I go home at weekends in order to be home with my partner. Driving off on Sunday afternoon instead of Monday morning feels like losing another day of the few that we have together. Getting home on late Saturday morning would just finish it off and make it feel not worth coming home at all.

PS I am a cheapskate because every extra few hundred on the commute is another day or so that I have to work.

PPS actually of course the problem is that I am not an "international consultant", I'm just a bum-on-seat office drone trying to half-pretend that I can work M-F where the work is, I am scared that if I just travelled out on Monday daytime and back on Friday daytime, and billed for a "professional week", they would fire me. Depressing but true.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Don't fly sleazyjet or vermin air.

I periodically declare that even if it throws me out of work I'll never fly with them again. So far I have managed to stick to it for FR but not for EZ. It's OK if you're travelling to or from SE England, you have lots of choice, but otherwise you may find that most of your destinations are served by Easyjet and often by no-one else.

For example from Edinburgh to Germany (easily my biggest market) it's all Easyjet or Ryanair, except LH to Duesseldorf but that's in the middle of the day.