Let me count the ways I loathe thee

Bristol airport. Having popped by a couple of times in the last month (Im very jet set doncha know), Ive remembered how much I cannot stand the place. Now don't get me wrong I know pretty much all airports are a nightmare, especially with all the security checks these days; but Bristol. Well its just a special kind of awful.

Firstly Im pleased to note that they have dropped the 'international' from the title. A glorified cattle shed that flys to gurnsey and the canaries if you are lucky, probably shouldnt have tried to rise quite so much above its station.

One risk with the airport is that you might not actually get to fly anywhere at all. I once read somewhere that Lulsgate Bottom was used by the RAF in the war as a training area due to its bad weather record. I may have made that up but it does make sense as someone only has to sneeze in Bishopsworth and suddenly there are gale force winds and gone are your dreams of sunbathing in the algarve.

Fortunately these last couple of occasions I have been lucky enough to make it off the runway so I must not complain. My real beef for the latest encounter with the place is the down right rudeness of the security staff. Now I'm not saying that I want a hug as I pass through security, though inevitably I do usually get some form of unwlecome touching as the fillings in my teeth or something as minor will usually set off the security sensor. I would just like a bit of politeness thats all. I do not wish to be barked at when (ridiculously) the clear plastic bag I have thoughtfully placed my liquids in does not happen to be, (in the opinion of the miserable bint on the desk), 'clear' enough (I kid you not). Nor do I wish to be fleeced £1 for four plastic bags the Im forced to buy from the machine that is clearly there only to make extra revenue. Is it not enough that I have to take out a mortgage to buy a coffee in the cafe?

I understood that the purpose of the plastic bags were that security could check the liquids as the passed through the control area. So I am at a loss as to why I need to buy bags when clearly my liquids have now all been checked? Maybe Im just being thick? Maybe the 'regulation' bags will actually all protect us from Osama bin laden. Perhaps thats why they are £1.

anyway... I shall go, as whilst I could go on to complain about the fact they have also now moved duty free so that you are forced to walk through it on the way to departures like its ikea or even the fact it takes four years for someone to turn a baggage carosel on when you land again. I am tired and I want my tea. I therefore bring this whinging to a close.

Good night all :) x