Day 2 in which we explore Bergen, board the MS Polarlys, and depart on our voyage.
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Offline Travel Apps?!?
Ok, time for another rant.
On the plane over I wanted to set up our itinerary on my phone.
On my PalmPilot I used an application called WorldMate. Awesome little thing. Had a small database of the most common airports and whatnot included as well as a few useful utilities and pieces of info such as clothes-size conversions etc. Absolutely brilliant.
So before I left I installed that on my Android phone, as well as TripCase which seemed to be similar.
Well guess what. Both of these apps require internet access for just about everything. Most importantly, to create and edit a trip. What bollocks – just when you are least likely to have internet access (ie, while travelling abroad), apps which manage your trip require it.
While it is very nice to have these apps pre-populate input fields using online data, this should always be optional and the user should always be able to edit things offline.
So a huge thumbs-down from me for both WorldMate and TripCase on Android.
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Boarding planes
Why the bleep can’t people board in reverse order??
Here we are standing in the freezing cold waiting for a huge queue of people to board while the people in the first rows sort out their luggage.
It would easily halve the boarding time if airlines insisted on boarding properly.
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Checking in at Heathrow T3
What a refreshing change.
No queues no mess no fuss.
Checking in at SAK took all of 5 minutes with a combination of self-checkin kiosk and baggage drop.
Security didn’t take much longer either although the usual theatre of almost stripping naked and having to just about unpack my luggage due to electronics was unavoidable.Still, compared to T5 it was easy peasy. Norway here we come!