[…]area all it would take would be for your partner to distract the sales person and you could pocket the far larger and more deadly pair of shop scissors. Again, more pointless security screening. There’s hundreds of things that are openly available in the sterile area and on your plane that are just as dangerous as a blunt knife, fork & hobby scissors. I won’t even go into the damage that a pen or a broken wine bottle or wine glass could do to incapacitate a person but I’m sure your imagination can work it out. I think we all […]
[…]25, 2018) Just a word of warning, Gare de Saint-Michel – Notre-Dame station is a den of pick-pocketing thieves. As I was leaving to head to Amsterdam, two dodgy Africans tried to pick pocket me. I was lucky enough to notice that I was being sized up while I waited on the platform so was able to keep my whits about me and scream at them as they made their move. Fucking […]
[…]only pay via credit card, even for small purchases. This meant that I don’t end up with a pocket full of coins and there’s no chance of the establishment being robbed. Really […]
[…]I was able to get over 99% of my money back after I’d cancelled – only being out of pocket for the credit card surcharge of around $30 that Qatar Airways had charged me. In hindsight they should have refunded the credit card surcharge but I couldn’t be bothered arguing over it. And then the Melbourne lockdown happened. Between late March and late October the Melbourne metropolitan area was under a strict lockdown for a total of 112 days, with a small break in the middle that ultimately ended up causing the second wave. In total we had one hundred […]