It's strange that something in nature can have such a profound impact on travel plans, and the activities that surround them.
I'm off to the London Book Fair tomorrow, and hoping its not too blighted by this strange turn of events. I have a conference on Thursday, with a keynote speaker from Australia; I wonder if he will make it. My sister-in-law is stuck here with us in London because she cannot return to her home in Sydney. Her job, studies, family all have to just wait for the skies to clear.
We all went for a bike ride today in Bushy Park; sunny day, lots of birds, no plane noise overhead. It was perfect.
I've always disliked airports - too many sad goodbyes and the accumulated anxieties of travellers waiting to leave, or people anxious to meet and greet. Now I expect they are strangely deserted, with pockets of optimists - or those who just don't have anywhere else to go.
I wonder how the struggling airline companies will survive the economic fallout from these losses. More mergers perhaps. Maybe this, when it eventually ends, have turned people in Europe back to ferry,coach and rail travel as a more preferred option in the future.
Maybe our Eurostar booking, to leave London for Paris early in June, will soar in value. But then it can't go on that long, can it?
Lizzie
