Gatwick

Well I am flying home tomorrow and trying out a new route with VLM: Rotterdam to City Airport, which ought to be a lot more pleasant. Will see how that goes. In the meantime, found this fun little piece in the Guardian the other day which sums it all up:

Gatwick terror panic
The government has banned airline passengers from wearing green hats after a man in a green hat was arrested at Gatwick airport carrying a bottle of potentially lethal hydrogen peroxide. Holidaymakers who flout the new rule face severe penalties, although hats of other colours will still be permitted, as will rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The terror alert led to half-mile queues at airport security checkpoints, but tourists caught in the chaos proved phlegmatic. "It's not really any bother for me, because I come from a Scandinavian country and therefore have an essentially imperturbable temperament," said Finnish gap-year student Ari-Pekka Sjöström, who spent the night trying to sleep on a bench outside Burger King in Gatwick's south terminal. "Also, I'm on a gap year, so hanging around airport terminals talking to journalists is about as constructive as anything else I could be doing."
A defiant group of Britons interviewed by ITV News also refused to be cowed by the threat of terrorism. They said it was crucial for the survival of liberal democracy that they press ahead with plans to spend the weekend getting life-threateningly drunk in the lap-dancing clubs of Tallinn.