Posts Tagged ‘ April Fools Day ’

Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. How did the travel industry respond?

Being April Fool’s day, I have resisted the temptation to try and fool you. Instead boring things like VAT, travel insurance fraud and the Battle of (the) Womens Path will have to do.

“Warwick Castle is hiring a bottom-class poo grader to run the Ploppy Shop in its Horrible Histories® Mediaeval Mayhem village.”

Plans are underway for Trafalgar Square’s Nelson’s Column to be relocated to the North Norfolk coast in time for the 210th anniversary of his death.

The surprise Easter destination this year is the small Middle Eastern island of Dhookwin which can be found in the Persian Gulf.

Over the Easter weekend there were three stories that made me wonder whether April Fools’ Day lasts longer then a single day. All were concerned with airlines and only one cheered me up.
All of you have probably heard of the strange case of easyJet at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport where two passengers arrived with a man in a wheelchair. The problem was that he was dead and it looks as though the women, his wife and daughter, were trying to take him back to Germany. The taxi driver appears not to have noticed the fact that the man was dead but airport workers did. Now I could have believed that was an April Fool but human nature seems odder than you can make up.