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OK Dennis- You win the Nasty Airports I Have Known competition. You have my vote. But Gina still wins the catagory of Worst Experiences in Western Airports by by a Handicapped Traveler :-) Charlie Dennis Greene wrote: > Before this "Nasty airports I have known" thread dies (or is killed by the > all powerful 'enough already') I thought I'd get my entry in. > > Luanda Airport (Angola) 1971 > > 1st sight - look out of window as plane lands to see runway lined with > armoured cars. > > exit aircraft through a corridor of soldiers armed with 'Uzis'. > > walk across tarmac to the bus in 90 degree heat and 80 degree humidity. It > is 1 o'clock in the wee small hours of the morning. > > enter the terminal building to find it is under construction and the > transit lounge is up a wide sweeping flight of raw concrete stairs which > rise out off the middle of the lobby. the stairs have no rails. > > Find that the transit lounge is a large room with no seating and a counter > made of planks laid across 44 gallon drums. A single armed soldier serves > behind the counter. > > The ' toilets' comprise 2 bare rooms which will be ready "in a few weeks > time". > > retrace steps to aircraft > > get away - never to return. > > Dennis > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dennis Greene 49/dx 37/ onset 32 > There's nothing wrong with me that a cure for PD won't fix! > [log in to unmask] > http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************