Damn you Iceland!

[Soulstealer]

I'm supposed to fly back to the UK on Friday. This might not happen. Stupid volcano.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'd just like to say I'm really happy my sister is not on one of her vacations in London right now. There's no way she'd ever be able to get home.

I've heard it could be weeks before the ash in the air subsides. This is wreaking havoc at the swamp, believe it or not. One of our pharmacists was visiting family in Ireland, I believe, and now he can't get home.

[crazylegs]

The fecking thing has stopped belching ash - the forecast is looking good for tomorrow (not that it'll be dispersed, but that it is getting smaller).

Here's hoping at least!

[BookstoreEscapee]

My roommate was reading some article that had a little recording of how to pronounce the name of the volcano.

I think I'll just call it that volcano in Iceland...

[AccountingDrone]

I'd just like to say I'm really happy my sister is not on one of her vacations in London right now. There's no way she'd ever be able to get home.

I've heard it could be weeks before the ash in the air subsides. This is wreaking havoc at the swamp, believe it or not. One of our pharmacists was visiting family in Ireland, I believe, and now he can't get home.

Cunard Lines still runs transatlantic - you can still cross the ocean without an airplane - takes a week of luxury though. Can she take being waited on hand and foot?

Westbound seems to be about $1100 ish. Actually, it is oddly comparable to a round trip crammed like a sardine into an airplane. Hmm, Queen Mary 2. My dad did the round trip to Southampton for ww2, once to go invade Germany and once to return to head to the western pacific to go invade Japan [Japan surrendered so they shipped him back to Germany since he spoke German =)]

I think Ill have the Avocado & Tomato in Pico di Gallo, Endive, Baby Spinach with Yellow Tomato, Honey Ginger Dressing, Roast Duck à l’Orange, Hazelnut Croquettes & Grand Marnier Sauce, Baked Alaska with Morello Cherries and a Cheese Selection with Stilton, Saint Paulin, Gruyère, Pepper Boursin with my after dinner coffee.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Cunard Lines still runs transatlantic - you can still cross the ocean without an airplane - takes a week of luxury though. Can she take being waited on hand and foot?

At least with all the global warming there's less chance of hitting an iceberg

[AccountingDrone]

At least with all the global warming there's less chance of hitting an iceberg

But they only hit *one* little iceberg ...

Besides, wasn't the Titanic White Star Line not Cunard Line? Quick google, and yup =)

Frankly, I did my first motor vessel cruise [I have previously cruised on Mystic Whaler 4 times, and it was a blast! and spent summers on a sailboat very similar to this one. Same designer, similar size just a slightly different design back around the ladder down - it had a berthing to one side of the ladder and a head on the other side of the ladder. I would KILL to be able to buy this and do the relatively small amount of renovation left to get this one back to seaworthy ] and I can seriously recommend it as a vacation. I am seriously thinking next time I go to europe, I may just take a cruise to go and return. Beats the living hell out of being crammed onto an airplane, and frankly, the flight is damned near the same cost when it all comes down to it. Last time I checked tickets to go to Germany, it was $1100 one way, crammed in like a sardine, with rude customers, annoying monster brats and crappy food. On the QM2, a tiny stateroom inboard, peace and quiet, and excellent food and quality time with my kindle and several hundred books

[Food Lady]

At least with all the global warming there's less chance of hitting an iceberg

BE, you always make me

[draggar]

At least with all the global warming there's less chance of hitting an iceberg

If a volcano throws enough ash into the atmosphere it can lower global temperatures - Krakatoa (sp?) lowered global temperatures 2-3 degrees the last time it erupted.

I know it doesn't sound like a lot but the last major ice age the average global temperature was only 7-8 degrees lower than it is now.

[HYHYBT]

Besides, wasn't the Titanic White Star Line not Cunard Line? Quick google, and yup =)

Yes, but the current Cunard is the result of a merger between the two, so it's the same thing.

[BookstoreEscapee]

BE, you always make me

Aw, thanks

If a volcano throws enough ash into the atmosphere it can lower global temperatures - Krakatoa (sp?) lowered global temperatures 2-3 degrees the last time it erupted.

This I know. I've read it in the past in a few places, too, but I recently read Superfreakonomics and there was a section on that. (Actually, I think I have that book on Krakatoa around here somewhere...I should read that one of these days.)

Yes, but the current Cunard is the result of a merger between the two, so it's the same thing.

This I did not know.

[shankyknitter]

My professor is stuck in Paris until further notice. I've already been covering his class for a week (yes this is the class I'm taking with him and therefore am not TA-ing, but he's odd and won't trust anyone else to cover for him) and I got an e-mail at about 7:30pm telling me that he's stuck and that I need to cover his class tomorrow too.


Though to be fair he asked politely, AND he's moved mountains for me before so I do kinda owe him. But drat it! Less than 24 hours is not enough time to learn the material for an hour and a half long college class on a topic I knew next to nothing about going into!

[SongsOfDragons]

We're planning to go up for the Student Nationals in Edinburgh on Friday. We don't know if we can so we're planning the route via car as a contingency.

Also I've read a load of the 'I'm stuck' stories on the BBC website, and I'm appalled at lots of them being arrested for overstaying Visas, running out of money and neither the airline nor their insurance company bothering to help...what's the point in getting the latter, and the former should be bloody ashamed of themselves.

[Chromatix]

Hmm, I hadn't thought of the overstaying-visa problem. Be interesting to find out which countries are being overzealous about it.

Within Europe, the land-based transport system is gearing up to take the extra traffic, but of course there are only so many extra trains that can be put on, and it takes quite a lot longer to go that way than by air - and longer still by road. One of our managers is coming back from a customer site by (presumably hired) car from somewhere in southern Europe.

We share our office building with at least one ship operator, too, and so I overheard one of their people negotiating arrangements over the phone in the lift this morning.

[ralerin]

I really hope it clears up by May 8-I want my boyfriend to be here for my college graduation. =/