The Long Journey Home

Being in the travel industry you of course have to travel all around the globe and often. With the mandate comes usual pitfalls any traveller every so often encounters - luggage lost or on another continent, delayed or cancelled flights and hotels that have no records of your booking. In all my time as a travel journalist I have never feared that I would not be able to home.

This is my tale about last Christmas, as several of you remember the Christmas traffic was hit hard by the Ash Cloud from Iceland that caused most of northern Europe to order a no-fly area. This considerably impacted a lot of peoples scheduled vacations and seasonal festivities with friends and families. I for one missed an opportunity at being a freelance photographer at a very unique marriage ceremony.

I managed to get halfway to this marriage ceremony when I got locked down on the ground by this momentary no-fly order and taking the rest of the journey by car was out of the question as it was both too treacherous roads as well as not being able to promise our arrival on time.

With this unfortunate finding we resolved to make my way back home, but to my horror we unearthed that we had very little ideas on how to journey between countries without flying.

We managed to chance upon a lodging not that far away from the airfield where I started my research in how I could get home.

My first few phone calls went to local businesses trying to locate travel plans in the popular directions of UK, I knew I could not travel all the way by train as there was trouble with the transfer under the tunnel at this time. It did not take me long until I got a few ideas and I ended up travelling with several "young" kids in a rented van. They were this happy-go-lucky youth that did not worry too much about life and saw this whole thing as "just another big adventure".

One of the guys in the van told me that he had been using the service that I could use to get the last bit of the way home, although he was not sure as it usually required arriving at an airfield and booking well in advance, this was airport transportations. He also pointed out that I may be in luck because nobody could fly, then it would also be logical that no one would be using the particular services. And then he shaped his hand in a Star Trek V-greeting that Spock uses and winked at me.

When we stopped later that night I called one of these services and tried to find this service, i was however met by a very grouchy and moody voice that evidently had a little too much of a bad day with persons complaining about the Ash Cloud to bother with someone like me a few countries away. I called [airport 2 keyword] and got greeted by a very excited young woman happy to refer me to the business that arranged such travel. I explained my situation and she was more than happy to suggest places where they could meet me and arrange for my journey to my final destination.

After the kids in the van dropped me off and a short tunnel trip later I was met by the driver that jested that I should have booked their travel all the way instead now that the flight-ban was in effect. We had a pleasant journey on our way home and ever since then I have used airport Transfer Services and made sure I book them well in advance. Now they are available at most airports and about every nation on the planet, but they were quite new when we used their service.

Something I do know as a traveller, the last stretch of your journey is invariably the hardest - you only want to get home, you have nothing else in your mind but turning that key that unlocks your front door and step in to your home. Trust me when I say that using the indicated services makes this last leg of your journey quite comfortable and the drivers are great.

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