Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!moat.net!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Flights from UK to Europe Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:12:20 +0900 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4cd7eoF153qo1U1@individual.net> References: <4cb96tF13lu3jU1@individual.net> <1147173366.559242.188110@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <4cbsklF14slluU1@individual.net> <4cbvonF14pjqaU1@individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net YEQjDuxZsGjgJL7vUAzyBw34ZrGA8KalpwvJbrzD7UQ8kYmwhh X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:162854 CL wrote: > I have had good luck getting nearly free tickets to Gib from Gatwick > thrown in on my BA multi-stop ticket purchases. Hmm. Sounds interesting. Now, how did you do that? > From experience, I DO NOT recommend doing Narita -> Heathrow > -> Gatwick -> Gibraltar as a straight-through multiple connection > unless you're into insomnia as a lifestyle and enjoy it when your kids are > at their whiny best. Well, we'll be staying in the UK, so it doesn't matter which London airport we use. I have a kind of pathological hatred of Gibraltar, so I'll avoid that if possible. > The Malaga airport is so far away from anything else that you have to > add in at least an hour of driving to any schedule you make ... We'll be staying in a village inland and will have a longish drive no matter which airport we use, so that's not a big deal. > and the car rental people seem to only ever have dirty Fiat Multiplas > for you to drive. And every one of them smells as though they'd been > rented out as chicken coops for the previous week. I rented beauties for peanuts on previous occasions; having lived in Andalusia for years I can kind of smell out the best deals! The real issue is, can we get there for the cheapo prices that are supposed to be around these days. Once we're there, pues, la bendita gloria! John