Mum accused of trafficking daughter in airline blunder

B writes:

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:33:02 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

B wrote:

I read a local paper every day, either Il Resto del Carlino or
Corriere Adriatico, Corriere della Sera (several times a week),
L'Espresso (weekly) and I subscribe to the International Herald
Tribune. The IHT is beginning to irritate me also, as it's giving
more and more space to business news, something in which I have less
than zero interest.

Given that my alternative is the Financial Times, the business isn't a
problem, but is there always so much fashion (= 4 pages/day) or is
that a seasonal thing?

(My subscription to Courrier International is currently lapsing and I
don't want to go back to the Economiste. Hoorah, in which case, for
Bloglines and RSS!)

Des

On 05 Mar 2006 22:12:04 +0000, Des Small
wrote:

B writes:

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:33:02 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

B wrote:

I read a local paper every day, either Il Resto del Carlino or
Corriere Adriatico, Corriere della Sera (several times a week),
L'Espresso (weekly) and I subscribe to the International Herald
Tribune. The IHT is beginning to irritate me also, as it's giving
more and more space to business news, something in which I have less
than zero interest.

Given that my alternative is the Financial Times, the business isn't a
problem, but is there always so much fashion (= 4 pages/day) or is
that a seasonal thing?

It's a seasonal thing, but the seasons tend to run into each other.
That's my second problem with the IHT.

(My subscription to Courrier International is currently lapsing and I
don't want to go back to the Economiste. Hoorah, in which case, for
Bloglines and RSS!)

What is Courier International?

I keep getting solicitations from the Economist, but I hate that
twerpy magazine. I also for a while subscribed to the Guardian
Weekly, but it was overly politicized for me. I would like a good
international news source, reasonably unaligned, which doesn't ignore
Asia, Africa, and South America, with a reasonable amount of cultural
news (books, theatre, art) and little or no business, celebrity
gossip, or fashion.

And I would like it in paper form so that I can balance it on my lap
with a cup of tea while I'm sitting by our kitchen fireplace.

Open to all suggestions.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

B writes:

On 05 Mar 2006 22:12:04 +0000, Des Small
wrote:

(My subscription to Courrier International is currently lapsing and I
don't want to go back to the Economiste. Hoorah, in which case, for
Bloglines and RSS!)

What is Courier International?

It really is "Courrier International". It's a French weekly news
digest. They round up articles from newspapers everywhere (continent
by continent) except France, and translate them into French. It's
very good, but it's more French than I can read on a weekly basis.

http://www.courrierinternational.com/gabarits/html/default_online.asp
should give you enough of a taste. I seem to remember them claiming
to have an Italian sister-paper, but I don't remember the name.

I keep getting solicitations from the Economist, but I hate that
twerpy magazine. I also for a while subscribed to the Guardian
Weekly, but it was overly politicized for me. I would like a good
international news source, reasonably unaligned, which doesn't ignore
Asia, Africa, and South America, with a reasonable amount of cultural
news (books, theatre, art) and little or no business, celebrity
gossip, or fashion.

And I would like it in paper form so that I can balance it on my lap
with a cup of tea while I'm sitting by our kitchen fireplace.

Open to all suggestions.

The search for the less mindlessly neo-liberal Economiste-substitute
is not an easy one, for sure. Someone recently recommended the
Norwegish weekly Morgenbladet, but I'm pretty confident it largely
ignores Asia, Africa and South America.

Which is to say, me too.

Des

Following up to Mxsmanic :

Some people don't even know they need a passport to travel abroad.

Some people don't seem to know that some people don't need a passport to
travel abroad.
--
Tim C.

Following up to Mxsmanic :

mrtravel writes:

Apparently she relied on Ryanair's info the second time, after already
have suffered through many hours of questioning because of "thier"
mistake the first time. Would you?

She might not have known where else to turn. Did Ryanair suggest
other sources of information besides itself?

She's Australian. She would at least have been aware of the existence of an
embassy. Travel agents in the UK can also be helpful.
Or even her husband. She isn't alone in the big bad world.
--
Tim C.

Tim C. wrote:
Following up to The Reid :


Following up to Mxsmanic


Sounds like the airline was negligent. Parents are used to
going anywhere with their babies. There's no particular reason why
they should assume that they would have trouble flying somewhere.

Are they? I wonder how many Australians living in London with an
Italian husband think passports are unimportant.
Even after they have been refused entry once for not having a
passport?



I'm beginning to wonder if that woman isn't really Vicky Pollard.
--
Tim C.

Well, as long as she isn't Michael J Pollard. Now, that would be scary.
(Star Trek - "Miri" episode, he portrayed a 14 year old when he was 30)

http://tinyurl.com/kpkmh or

http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Trek-Origin...ayphotohosting

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:54:48 +0100, Tim C.
wrote:

Following up to The Reid :

Following up to Mxsmanic

Sounds like the airline was negligent. Parents are used to
going anywhere with their babies. There's no particular reason why
they should assume that they would have trouble flying somewhere.

Are they? I wonder how many Australians living in London with an
Italian husband think passports are unimportant.
Even after they have been refused entry once for not having a
passport?


I'm beginning to wonder if that woman isn't really Vicky Pollard.
--
Tim C.


I which case she could happily solve the problem by dumping the kid,
having plenty more at home.
--==++AJC++==--

Following up to AJC :

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:54:48 +0100, Tim C.
wrote:

Following up to The Reid :

Following up to Mxsmanic

Sounds like the airline was negligent. Parents are used to
going anywhere with their babies. There's no particular reason why
they should assume that they would have trouble flying somewhere.

Are they? I wonder how many Australians living in London with an
Italian husband think passports are unimportant.
Even after they have been refused entry once for not having a
passport?


I'm beginning to wonder if that woman isn't really Vicky Pollard.
--
Tim C.


I which case she could happily solve the problem by dumping the kid,
having plenty more at home.

yeah but ...
--
Tim C.

"Tim C." wrote...
Following up to Mxsmanic :

mrtravel writes:

Apparently she relied on Ryanair's info the second time, after already
have suffered through many hours of questioning because of "thier"
mistake the first time. Would you?

She might not have known where else to turn. Did Ryanair suggest
other sources of information besides itself?

She's Australian.

What more need you say.......

She would at least have been aware of the existence of an
embassy. Travel agents in the UK can also be helpful.
Or even her husband. She isn't alone in the big bad world.

Well, he was an Italian...in Italy, providing just the sort of technical and
spousal support for which Italian men are justly world renowned.....Little
or none.

Let's face it. If ever a transaction had been concluded by the halt, the
lame and the blind, this was it. Ryanair, an Oztrine Mum and, who's your
Da, an Italian.....

TMO

Let's face it. If ever a transaction had been concluded by the halt, the
lame and the blind, this was it. Ryanair, an Oztrine Mum and, who's your
Da, an Italian.....

A bit of a no-starter really.

--
Tim C.