Re: US airports: 'menacing, cramped and devoid of humanity'
On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:58:46 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
wrote:
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>"tim....." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:[color=green]
>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message news:lo47r5$tr0$2@dont-email.me...[color=darkred]
>>> "tim....." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:[/color]
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>>>> I don't know why you have singled out LHR for not having water fountains
>>>> just because American airports do.
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>>>> IME most European ones don't, it isn't (wasn't) just London
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>>> Maybe other airports I've been through are more efficient so I don't get
>>> stuck for long periods where there are none or there are only machines
>>> requiring a kind of coinage I don't have with me. You may not have
>>> noticed, but cash machines don't dispense coins.[/color]
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>> was there really nowhere you could change a note into coins
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>> I do this regularly when a bank machine only dispenses the local
>> equivalent of 50 pound notes and I know that (e.g.) the local bus driver
>> isn't going to be too happy when I try and pay him with it.
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>I do the same when I know I'll need several, but there's usually a place
>where I can deal with a human selling things. This is not always the case,
>particularly when I'm exhausted from finding the departure gate area
>without passing such and barely grabbed the last open seat, which was next
>to one of those machines.[/color]
There's no shortage of places where you can spend money at Heathrow.
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Martin in Zuid Holland
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