Comments on: Departing Gatwick North

By: Vicola

Vicola — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:03:43 +0000

Cheap booze and cigs in an airport in Portugal. So cheap in fact that I gave most of my holiday clothes to some tramps who were begging outside the airport to make more room for my lovely voddie and Marlboro Lights. So if you ever spot a big burly tramp outside an airport looking like a summertime transvestite in pink flip flops and a bright coloured vest top you’ll know that I have been there and it’s worth having a gander in the duty free shop.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:49:53 +0000

In a moment of panic upon realizing I was about to spend 10 days stuck on a cruise ship, the first 4 Harry Potter books in hardcover. They were quite heavy.

By: Debster

Debster — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:38:46 +0000

Actually the best thing we did buy at an airport was duty free moose droppings. Actually they were chocolate covered raisins but had to be sealed and delivered with all the rest of the duty free stuff on the plane. I was just using up spare change.

By: Debster

Debster — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:37:18 +0000

I didnt buy it, but at Heathrow they had a diamond for £47,000. Not even set into a ring. That was extra.

Oh and big tv sets? Harrods have one for £30 grand.

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:19:23 +0000

Sunglasses. Seriously, they were huge. Dame Edna would be proud.

By: Four Dinners

Four Dinners — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:47 +0000

a sheep. I had a yearning for a sheep whilst waiting to catch a flight to Latvia for a gymnastics competition. It was a blow up sheep. I blew it up. My wife threatened me with not divorcing me so I let it down again. It was a very big blow up sheep. The British gymnasts I was in charge of seemed to find the entire episode amusing and I did not appear in The News of The World.

Actually I have no idea why I bought it as I was extremely pissed at the time. Fortunately the gymnasts knew where to guide me for take off.

By: gnarlyswine

gnarlyswine — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:35:47 +0000

I always thought it was odd that they sell luggage – its a bit late to pack after all – but I suppose you may need somewhere to put that big screen TV, as for dissecting emails I hope your not just going to comment on splleing and grammers. I would like to see them dropped in a jar of chloroform , then pull their vowels out and pin them to a board.

Biggest thing bought – a new life – i.e. one way ticket from the UK to the land of hockey permasnow and decent beer (with honey in it for some odd reason – not as manky as it sounds)

By: Badger

Badger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:10:15 +0000

A wife. Gotta love East Asia.

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:55:38 +0000

A toblerone, but not just any toblerone, it was 4 feet long and thicker than my arm.

mhhhhhhh

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:52:38 +0000

A pop-up mosquito net!

By: Brennig

Brennig — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:11 +0000

Welcome back.

Erm… where do you get the iTunes listing from?

By: Jaggy

Jaggy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:24 +0000

I triple full Scottish Breakfast. Carried aboard in my fuel tank.

By: Keef

Keef — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:17 +0000

Welcome back Angry, glad to see you didn’t do yourself a mischief this time around.
I’ve personally never bought anything other than consumables at an airport, my wife in particular refuses to get on a plane without a bottle of water since I presume she fears we’ll make a forced landing in the desert.
The largest thing I’ve seen for sale in a duty free is a Mercedes E Class at Doha in Qatar
(an actual full sized car), I thought at the time it would be a hell of a job to get it in the overhead locker onboard the aircraft.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:45:18 +0000

A woman!

By: Glammer

Glammer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:49:44 +0000

Wogan gets his listeners to write his show for him, too. All Wogan does for his extortionate wage is read emails out in a silly voice. Which is why I listen to Moyles.

Still, I look forard to your Eurovision commentary.