You’re so right there, was on a lads trip in Rhodes, coming home our huge plane didn’t arrive for whatever reason so they sent two smaller ones to replace. We were near the front of check in, for some reason the early arrivers were allocated the second plane which was delayed by 8 hours from the original flight time whilst those at the back of the queue got a flight that was delayed just a couple of hours.
We had no choice so we queued at the bar for beers, just before our turn the draught ran out, no problem we’ll wait for another keg, no chance, it had run out full stop, no beer for the rest of the day. Ok, bottles and cans Jerry, plenty of them on shelves, not in fridges, in July, they were steaming hot.
As you know the airport is rudimentary, sat on a canteen style chair in a very basic “lounge” for around 8 hours waiting to come home, shocking. I bumped into an old mate in the airport who was on our flight, he was with his wife, he’d had his leg off after being shot at the Battle of Longden in the Falklands conflict, he took his false leg off and had a kip in the tiled floor, his Mrs said it was luxury compared to what he’d been through!
Rhodes however is a fantastic island, stayed at Rhodes Town, stunning.
