The funny, the bizarre and the downright extreme

I have spent the past 2 hours coming up with excuses for not ironing that pile of clothes in the spare bedroom. This post is excuse number 11 and is just a few travel related thoughts I’ve had over the past week.

The funny

It was reported in the Guardian this week that Moscow officials are attacking the Lonely Planet for allegedly painting a grim and dated picture of Moscow in its Moscow guide and thereby scaring off tourists.

That is just too funny!

First of all, it is a bit of an insult to any visitor to Moscow. I’m pretty sure that anybody interested in visiting Moscow is smart enough to know that a guide book is a subjective view of a place not gospel.

Secondly, if anybody has second thoughts about going to Moscow, I would have thought it has more to do with Moscow’s increasing number of racist murders and other xenophobic crimes.

The bizarre

I was stunned to read a post on blogher.org that some women don’t like the automated features used in public toilets, such as auto flush toilets, auto taps and my favourite automatic towel dispensers.

How can you not like them? I regard them as the best use of technology ever! Well, maybe not, but you have to admit, it is pretty clever!

In particular when I think of the number of women I have seen get out of a public toilet, go to the mirror and RUN THEIR FINGERS THROUGH THEIR HAIR BEFORE THEY WASH THEIR HANDS! Eeeeewww! Think about it, if they are willing to do that to themselves, do you really want to touch anything they have touched?

The downright extreme

My girlfriend, who miraculously managed to fly from Heathrow to Zurich yesterday and is now trying to return home, called me earlier to tell me that her hair and facial products had been confiscated at Heathrow yesterday.

Now, considering the circumstances that would have been acceptable if the products had been confiscated in front of her. But the bottles had been emptied after she had checked in her bag without anybody notifying her. She only found out that the bottles had been emptied out, when she was in the bathroom this morning getting ready for her meeting.

I know, I was all “how much information do we need” yesterday, but confiscating hair products in checked in luggage is a bit extreme! What’s next the security officer doesn’t like the book I’m reading?

And it can only have been carried out by a male security officer, any female officer will know what having no cleanser and hair products can drive a woman to do!

So spare a thought for my poor girlfriend who is currently mid-air with frizzy hair.

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