There's a fine line between providing a service and being theiving bastards I reckon. Just like there's a fine line between a plug ugly midget, and one that's rather cute. Have you been watching that series on Channel 4 where 7 midgets are living in a house, it's fantastic, - they had a game of hide and seek one week and one of them hid underneath a scatter cushion! Anyway, I'm getting excited now, and that's not the point. Well, it is the point, but you know what I mean...
Anyway, I found it interesting booking travel to Toulouse earlier in the year. Basically the task was to get two people from the south of England to Toulouse, and the options I priced up were:
Drive all the way, via the Tunnel.
Drive, including an overnight ferry with a berth from Portsmouth.
A late crossing from Poole to St Malo, cheap hotel in St Malo, drive on down in the morning.
Cheapo jet to Toulouse, hire a car for a week on arrival.
Train, - St Pancreas-Paris-Toulouse, Hire car.
I was amazed to find that all options came out with a total cost of just a few pounds from each other. In other words, the travel companies had done their homework -(or entered into a cartel...).
Whether the cost would be the same for a midget, I cannot say.
H
PS Their game of drunken Twister was a rare and marvellous thing to see, - the little guys weren't big enough to reach all the spots without lying face down and spread-eagled. After more than a couple were involved it looked like a skydiving stunt gone wrong.
