Flight 3 of 3 London to Granada
Trip Start
Aug 11, 2007
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33
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Trip End
Dec 22, 2007
Granada,
Spain
Monday, October 8, 2007
As a poor college student I decided it was in my best interest to spend all of yesterday traveling on three seperate flights where I booked my own connections becuase it was the cheapest way to get back to granada.
We got up at 4:15 to get to the Edinburgh airport for flight number one. We only had carry on baggage because we didnt want to miss our connections sooo I was forced to try to bring the Peanut butter through security. I bought it for $1 in Edin. because it costs around 7 for a small container in Granada.Needless to say security was forced to dig through my bag and remove it. I figured pointing out it was not a liquid or gel but the crunchy kind would not help my situation.
That flight left late but we still managed to make it to our next flight in Dublin, through customs, to get our tickets, aand through security (again)
Ode to my Peanut Butter
. Where I was searched (AGAIN). Mind you up until yesterday I think my bags have been searched maybbe once in all my travels in my life. This time it was my "Fancy glass's case" That looked suspicious (yes those were the exact words I heard one security person use to tell another waht it was)We arrived in london, went through customs, and waited 2 hours or so to get our tickets and go through security (for the third time) each time fearing our barely under the limit bags would be prohibited from being hand luggage at which point I was prepared to demonstrate using my only measuring device (my notebook) that the "your bag must be smaller than this"-box was significantly smaller than the actual dimensions listed. But size was not the problem this time... my souvenirs were sketchy. Not only did she take retty much eeverything out of my bag. She did the swab test to the whole bag, to all the electronic devices (after inspecting them), ut all the souvenirs back through the x-ray machine, and used the sniffer machine to sniff out my liquids, 10 minutes later I left security. The moral of this story is... after a few hundred years the brits still feel threatened by the yankees. Guess we were pretty scary during that whole revolutionary war thing ;)
Comments
ehh!
So, I am now officially going to London next term, so I'm glad to hear that you liked it. I hope I don't have crazy airport security issues like you did though.
Dani