Four Days in Košice – Wait, Where?"
Aug 20, 2025 | 4:09 am
#121
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Amsterdam and London
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Posts: 575
Just adding my own thanks JapesUK
I always enjoyed your trip reports and admired your determination to shake things up lifestyle wise post Covid. Hopefully we will still see you on the Friday thread.
I always enjoyed your trip reports and admired your determination to shake things up lifestyle wise post Covid. Hopefully we will still see you on the Friday thread.
Aug 20, 2025 | 11:03 am
#122
Join Date: Apr 2024
Location: MME / NCL
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Massive thanks for all the entertaining trip reports, JapesUK. You write really well, the destinations have been inspiring and it was particularly good to have someone travelling and writing from a North East England base. There’s some phrase about ‘always leave them wanting more’ that feels appropriate - good to go out on a high and before it becomes a chore for you. Huge thanks again.
Aug 21, 2025 | 6:47 am
#123
Join Date: Oct 2019
Programs: BA Silver, SAS Diamond , TK Elite
Posts: 459
Have thoroughly enjoyed reading many of your trip reports having only found this corner of flyertalk recently. We are about to start embarking on a quest to tick off the European countries we are yet to visit so I will be diving into your back catalogue for inspiration on any of those we are yet to do.
Aug 23, 2025 | 5:56 am
#124
Join Date: Feb 2025
Location: EDI
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Indeed, many thanks for sharing your journeys. I suspect for most of us it will be a case of not realising how much we appreciated something until it's no longer there. I hope the "something else" is a positive rather than a negative development in your life, but either way best wishes going forward. Thanks again.
Aug 23, 2025 | 2:33 pm
#125
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,044
Thanks for the reporting to all of those off the beaten path locales. Much appreciated! I understand the effort it takes for these trip reports, especially the live version. I've had so many false starts over the years. I get distracted by FOMO, or sorting through photos, or having to use the notebook to stay caught up with work and don't want to deal with a notebook anymore.
Aug 24, 2025 | 6:31 pm
#126
Join Date: Apr 2008
Programs: QFF
Posts: 287
I’ve loved your trip reports for years—they’ve been my weekend cuppa and biscuit. I’ll miss my Saturday fix of a JapesUK epic, but totally get the decision to ease off. For those of us who don’t write them often, it’s easy to forget the herculean combo of note-wrangling, photo-juggling and map-taming it takes to produce each one. So thank you for the miles, the smiles, and the marvellous storytelling.
Aug 30, 2025 | 9:55 pm
#127
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP >3 Million miles,HH Lifetime Diamond
Posts: 3,440
Reminds me of the regional airports in Burma. That had a system. At checkin you got a coloured sticker to attach to yourself. There was no other way of stopping you boarding the wrong plane as it was just 'door' 'tarmac' 'plane' for all flights, no gates as such, everyone was in the same chaotic holding pen.
