HOW TO END UP HERE BY ACCIDENT
I was on a nice holiday in Cyprus and Lebanon in 2000 and made my way to the airport to return back to England after a very nice time. While I was still in Cyprus I had picked up several British newspapers that warned there were fuel protests in the UK. Higher oil prices and automatic tax increases had driven up petrol prices. A group of astute farmers realised there were only 3 refineries in the UK and they successfully blockaded them. Throw in panic buying and the UK had real shortages. I assumed that, due to generally high fuel prices anyway, that the airline would refuel in Cyprus before we left. And so I blissfully got onboard with this assumption and we took off. A little while later........an announcement was made that we would be stopping Croatia for fuel. Obviously the airline had not been reading newspapers, watching TV or looking at the internet for a week.So we landed, sat...
