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A Traveller's Tale

# 2012-04-14 10:46:06, Eldon-Online
The highly entertaining Nury Vittachi, columnist, compére, wit and observer of some of the more bizarre things in life used to write a regular column in the Far Eastern Economic Review called Travellers' Tales; having such things in it as the classic and still passed around (with variations) today, of the "Morny, ruin sorbees"* conversation in a Bangkok hotel. Well, apologies, Nury, I sort of plagiarised it for this Blog today, just because it fits my purpose.If you travel as much as I seem to be doing, you have to expect the odd "difficult" experience at airports and with airlines and with immigration and particularly with security. If you smile at them they think you are acting unnaturally and if you don't smile, you're obviously behaving suspiciously! The law of averages itself would see to it that somewhere down the line you will fall foul of something or someone. But I guess I have either become anesthetised to the problems so I don't notice them, or if it really is something out...