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Post by kayevcee on Apr 15, 2010 14:04:59 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 15, 2010 15:48:36 GMT
You must build a Lego escape ship!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 16:56:34 GMT
I saw this on the news today. It's one of those things that only wants to happen when you don't want it to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 16:57:14 GMT
This is exactly the reason why no one like iceland!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 16:59:46 GMT
I thought all mums went to Iceland!
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 15, 2010 17:45:37 GMT
I'm using the free PC at the hotel. I should be brief because someone else will want on soon to try and book another escape attempt. KLM have kindly transferred us to a BA flight scheduled to leave tomorrow evening, but whether it's going anywhere either is in the hands of Surtur.
In other news, Denmark is rubbish. The public transport infrastructure is feeble, everything's too far apart (and too expensive) and the world shuts at 5! We had exhausted all the tourist-y possibilities of Billund by lunchtime on Tuesday. God know what we're going to do tomorrrow. If we can't leave then I think we're going to get the bus out to Kolding (a large city compared to Billund but still fairly dull), buy three canoes, head for the beach and just head west until our arms lack the strength to push our paddles.
A LEGO bridge has not been ruled out.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2010 18:21:52 GMT
Damn that Ultra Magnus and Galvatron volcano fight! Will they never learn?
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 18:35:38 GMT
Ride home on a dolphin's back!
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 15, 2010 18:52:05 GMT
Or construct a small sailing vessel out of bacon!
Hmmmmm, bacon.....
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 15, 2010 18:56:30 GMT
Argh. I feared that might be the case.  A little Hamlet Act II Scene II quite on-topic: HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true. Let me question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison hither? GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord! HAMLET Denmark's a prison.ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord. HAMLET Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind. HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. HAMLET A dream itself is but a shadow. ROSENCRANTZ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. HAMLET Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason. Martin |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 18:59:44 GMT
Or construct a small sailing vessel out of bacon! Hmmmmm, bacon..... don't eat the boat! |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 15, 2010 19:34:50 GMT
From the looks of the news reports, we may not be able to leave by air for quite some time. I've only got 15 minutes at a stretch on the hotel PC and my typing is a bit wonky because of the strangely placed ümlaüt button and other such features, but I'm going to have a go at finding other travel options. I reckon trains are the best bet but I've no idea how to go about booking across Europe.
Off to search now- wish me luck folks and if anyone has any suggestions or links I'm all metaphorical ears.
-Nick
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 15, 2010 20:18:42 GMT
I hope you make it back soon!
PS You're not in that hotel where they make you generate your own electricity are you?
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2010 6:37:10 GMT
Hope that the search for alternative travel arrangements goes well Nick. I shall keep my fingers crossed for you.
Karl
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2010 6:40:11 GMT
Hope that the search for alternative travel arrangements goes well Nick. I shall keep my fingers crossed for you.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2010 7:02:28 GMT
Karl is stuck in a tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistortiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiion!
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 16, 2010 7:48:29 GMT
This ash cloud is more powerful than we first realised.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2010 9:42:12 GMT
Another day with the Danes for young Nick !
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Post by Nigel on Apr 16, 2010 9:54:33 GMT
I just sent the oddest couple of emails I've ever had to: telling foreign customers that their parcels will be delayed due to volcanic ash.
Nick - take a coach to Germany then a ferry from Hamburg to the UK.
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2010 12:18:17 GMT
Karl is stuck in a tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistortiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiion! -Ralph Darn my goattee wearing alternate universe double. He just does this kind of stuff to mess with peoples heads. Karl |
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Post by Nigel on Apr 16, 2010 12:38:09 GMT
Yeah, I've got a clone like that.
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Post by Nigel on Apr 16, 2010 12:38:29 GMT
Yeah, I've got a clone like that.
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 16, 2010 15:22:42 GMT
Had to phone work today to tell them I wouldn't be able to make my shift on Saturday because I was trapped in Denmark due to a massive volcanic eruption. Currently trying to find out the Mass times at St Norbert's church in Vejle. Funnily enough the website is all in Danish and Babelfish doesn't cover the language.
-Nick
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Post by blueshift on Apr 16, 2010 15:33:27 GMT
Had to phone work today to tell them I wouldn't be able to make my shift on Saturday because I was trapped in Denmark due to a massive volcanic eruption. Currently trying to find out the Mass times at St Norbert's church in Vejle. Funnily enough the website is all in Danish and Babelfish doesn't cover the language. -Nick Google translate should sort you out: translate.google.com/# |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 16, 2010 16:20:42 GMT
Back again. Still no luck with t'internet in general, but I'll give Google translate a shot before phoning them and trying to make myself understood and, indeed, to understand them. Ta for the suggestion Nigel- we may yet give it a go, although the ferry from Esbjerg (west coast of Denmark) to Harwich is booked solid till the 25th (as of last night- God knows when the next space will be by now) and all the Eurostar trains are similarly jam-packed so our only solution may be to wait until Iceland's magma flow cools its shit. I looked into the ferry from Hamburg but there doesn't seem to be one- ferryto.co.uk suggest a train followed by the ferry from Esbjerg, which brings me neatly back to square one. Hey ho. At least we have a cheap B&B to stay in within spitting distance of the airport. And I don't have to go to work tomorrow  -Nick |
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Post by Nigel on Apr 16, 2010 16:34:33 GMT
No ferry from Hamburg. Hm. Well, it was nineteen years ago that I went to Legoland.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 16:47:15 GMT
Had to phone work today to tell them I wouldn't be able to make my shift on Saturday because I was trapped in Denmark due to a massive volcanic eruption. Currently trying to find out the Mass times at St Norbert's church in Vejle. Funnily enough the website is all in Danish and Babelfish doesn't cover the language. -Nick What an outlandish excuse to not go to work lol |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 16, 2010 17:11:02 GMT
This ash cloud is more powerful than we first realised. Well, it's done more to reduce (anthropogenic) carbon emissions than Copenhagen, and more to annoy travellers and airline managers than the best efforts of the unions, so I would say that's something of an understatement. Currently trying to find out the Mass times at St Norbert's church in Vejle. Given that it's an act of God that has scuppered your plans, I think He'll spare you a smiting if you miss this particular Sunday. Martin |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 17, 2010 6:55:42 GMT
Mass was at 8 o'clock this morning. We got up at 6 to get the 6.53 bus into Vejle only to find out that it doesn't run on Saturdays. It's okay though because the lady who translated the important bit at the top of the bus timetable that the lady in the tourist info office didn't bother to mention reckons that we have virtually no chance of our flight leaving on Sunday anyway.
You know the last episode of Stargate:SG1 where they stuck the ship in a time bubble seconds before an Ori blast destroyed them, and Col. Mitchell wanted to jump into the fighters and make a break for it but the rest of the team told him they would never make it out ahead of the explosion, but he still wanted to try and eventually he went nuts and smashed up his room with a pool cue? I'm beginning to understand how he felt.
-Nick
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 17, 2010 9:57:55 GMT
I hope you'll forgive the poor netiquette of following my own post as a result of impatience rather than doppelgangers or time distortion, but I feel the need and my PC time is limited.
The Esbjerg - Harwich ferry is now fully booked until the 27th and the 27th only has the pokiest 2-bed cabins available, so we'd need to get 2 cabins at a cost of over 400 quid. We can (probably) get home on flights we've already paid for by then.
Cabin fever has set in. I don't like waiting for a bus. If it's more than five minutes I'll walk on a couple of stops. We've been stuck here for three days with no end in sight. We've no spare cash for nonessential journeys. There's a basic shop in the airport that we can get milk from (we thought we'd bought some yesterday but it turned out to be a litre of natural yoghurt which would have been funnier if we hadn't carried it 4 miles first) but the nearest supermarket is more than an hour away on foot unless we want to pay for the surprisingly expensive hourly bus.
My parents seem content to sit here and wait for the ash to clear. I am not. I don't even want to go home desperately per se- I just can't sit around here any more. I have to start moving. By any means. I'll buy a canoe and an outboard motor if that's what it takes.
-Nick
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