Business travel in the winter is not all it is cracked up to be, especially when you get turned back as you reach your destination

In the words of a well known credit card company


Short notice flight to the UK – 300 Euros

Taxi to airport at 5.30am – 20 Euros

Coffees whilst delayed – 15 Euros

Hours spent in the airport – 5

Hours spent watching Series 1 of The Wire – 6


Airport catering crew on strike so nothing but water, peanuts and chocolate wafer in 4 hour flight – PRICELESS

Getting to the White Cliffs of Dover and being sent back behind the Iron Curtain – PRICELESS

Giving my wife something to laugh about for the next 24 hrs – PRICELESS

Having to get up at 5am the next day to try again (Katy wasn't laughing by then!) – PRICELESS