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the OhlSenS’ MOve tO the uK!

B y Be R nice o hl sen

iT'S OuR TuRn BlOG No long layover in Zurich – our first leg was A sweet, petite mom was travelling alone
Today (31 May 2021) is day delayed but fortunately we landed and with her son, he was two and probably
departed from the same terminal, so we were
weighed more than Hannah. The mom, also
one of quarantine – apparently on the second flight within 20 minutes – a in the queue for as long as we were was
yesterday was a ‘practice’ day. grand total of twelve passengers! The toilets trying to manage and contain her son. He
on this flight were the tiniest I have ever seen.
was escaping and charging around playing
Our ears are bruised and look I kid you not – my body touched each wall ‘hide and seek’ and hopping on and off
like wingnuts from doubling up – yes, Ralf Olsen, I imagine you are having a the ‘carts’ pretending to drive them and as
highly sensory children do after so much
germophobe moment right now . . . I nearly
on face masks – not sure they wedged myself and took the whole toilet stimulation, screaming and crying. The mom
will ever lie flat again – and our with me when I left! was amazing, she never lost her cool once. I
would have burst into tears within the first
nails are peeling from all the Heathrow: Very thankful to this group as we ten minutes. The passengers in the queue
sanitising. knew to stand in the queue for the Red List were most unhelpful and were fed up and
Zone. This queue took us 2½ hours to clear. rude to her. Imagine that, fed up – this world
Two gentlemen that did not know this, had is full of plonkers! At one stage, the mom
DAY ZeRO got to the front of their queue only to be sent asked the couple behind her if they could
The flight was fine – just very full. The food to the back of the Red List Zone to queue all hold her place and move her pram and
was good and so was the wine. The Swiss over, l mean wtf. It took them 3½ hours. Also, suitcase forward so she could stop her son
were not very friendly but the male stewards thanks to the group, we knew exactly what from escaping the confines of the Red Zone
were very pleasant to look at – Hannah was documents to bring with us (too, too many area and they flatly refused (on the grounds
drooling! The seats, however, were not made and they were called for so many times) . . . I of COVID) – just sanitise for heaven’s sake!
for ‘big-bottomed girls’. nearly lost my marbles. This carried on for about 2 hours.

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