Exciting new purchase. Stopped on Tuesday at a luggage and leather shop and spotted a carry-on that could replace my dying one. Have had a choice of two for recent trips, both pretty unsatisfactory. The current, a red and black one of uncertain provenance - may have been from Thailand which would put it back more years than we can easily estimate. Fifteen? And it’s simply worn out. Disintegrating. The alternate would have been my camouflage bag, bought for practically nothing several years ago at a discount warehouse place across from the current Sklavinites, replacing one that wasn’t going to make it home. Chief security feature being that nobody with any standards would dream of stealing it. Can see that replacements must be needed roughly every seven years. Relatively pleased with the newest iteration. Did have the woman at the shop measure it on Tuesday in order to estimate conformity with airline regulations, inconveniently different for each airline. And today take J’s travel measuring tape lest the shop owner’s measurements were overly optimistic. They were, but just a bit. The only standard that it really doesn’t quite meet is Cyprus Airways - slightly too high. But have flown with far too many Greek Cypriots to think this likely to be problematic. No wish to resort to drama, but well aware that half the passengers boarding in Larnaca will have hand luggage less in line with the specifications than mine and be more than willing to fight to the death for their right to take them aboard.
And as airport drama goes, difficult to compete with the Belgian couple in the news today. They arrived at Tel Aviv airport unaware that they needed a ticket for their infant - as indeed they would not have done on most forms of transport. And confronted with the requirement were so indignant that they left the baby on the conveyor belt, to the horror of everyone in the vicinity. Police summoned but apparently all resolved peacefully and family reunited. Well, they had a point. It’s not as if the infant would have been given a seat.
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