Holiday

[dryfter]

Continuing in the abbreviated format..

Good:
Boom festival. So good! Fantastic even! Best festival ever!

Bad - all travel related:
* Outbound flight (TAP Portugal) delayed for more than seven hours.
* Portugese car hire place (Europcar) gave our car to someone else, because we were late. Even though we had paid in advance, and they knew we were gonna be late.
* Running late for the return flight, I somehow managed to end up with my film packed in my checked luggage, and my multi-tool packed in my carry-on luggage. The latter was confiscated at security, but the film bothers me the most. It has almost certainly been ruined, and there won't be any way I can get back all those photos :(
* And of course, this morning I woke up to find this had happened at airports around the UK.

I knew we should have driven..

Comments

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

Hope you got some dosh back from Europcar for the trouble.

The film thing is yet another reason to buy a digital camera and a bunch of memory sticks. Things are really getting ridiculous...

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

mmm, I do have a digital SLR too - but it's too valuable to take to these festivals. Sand, dust, water, jolts and shocks, and potential theft.

A 26 year old Nikon SLR is nearly bulletproof though, and not really of any interest to thieves looking for a quick sale.

I guess I could take a little pocket digital camera, but they aren't really good for anything except happy snaps. And they suffer from the same problems - a few grains of sand or some rain, and they get into trouble.