Volcano: Holiday cancelled or stuck in birdland ? (1 Viewer)

George Edwards

Nom de plume

• Apr 18, 2010

• #1

Anyone else had their birding holiday cancelled, or, rather better, forced to an extend a birding holiday? I have a flight booked to Panama on Thursday, which is now looking very unlikely to happen. If only the volcano had erupted a week later I might have been stuck out there - that wouldn't have been half as bad!

 

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pdh

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2010

• #2

Well a friend of mine is stuck in LA on a business trip and has been forced to spend time in Griffith Park adding to his life list ...

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Apr 18, 2010

• #3

Well, I'm currently stuck for at least one additional day in the Algarve. Things could be worse, although it's actually been raining a lot today.

 

DaveN

Derwent Valley Birder

• Apr 18, 2010

• #4

My brother knows someone who works for air traffic control at Heathrow who reckons there wont be any movement until wednesday at the earliest. Also my brother should have been on a flight back from Tunisia as I type but obviously isn't.

 

turkish van

Number 1 celebrity badger

• Apr 18, 2010

• #5

Andrew Whitehouse said:

Well, I'm currently stuck for at least one additional day in the Algarve.

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You can string it out a bit longer than that surely?

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Apr 18, 2010

• #6

turkish van said:

You can string it out a bit longer than that surely?

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It looks increasingly likely to be honest!

 

chowchilla

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2010

• #7

Andrew Whitehouse said:

It looks increasingly likely to be honest!

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A friend of mine runs bird tours in the Algarve and has had to cancel all his tours for this week as his customers are stuck in the UK.

 

Lisa W

I really need to get out and bird more

Staff member

Supporter

• Apr 18, 2010

• #8

I was supposed to be birding with a British birder and his wife that I met through BF to years ago up in Tucson, Arizona today. Was supposed to go to Portal with them next weekend. They have been changed to a flight out of G.B. next Friday so will bird in Tucson next weekend and miss Portal in their rearranged itinerary. Good thing is they are retired so the week delay is workable.

 

Steve Dudley

aka The Toadsnatcher

• Apr 18, 2010

• #9

I know of several birders on their way to Lesvos who have been at or near airports since Thurs/Fri, some of whom have now packed up and gone home. My own flight tomorrow has been cancelled and I am now booked on flights on Weds and Thurs. On Thurs my first gorup is due out on Lesvos. One of our number was in the US and unable to get home to Scotland so he has flown to direct to Athens in the hope that we (inc. his wife) can join him on Lesvos on Thurs. He's already making overland route plans in case we dont make it.

So I'm currently on the wrong side of the problem!