Many Travelbloggers begin their entry with an applicable proverb or quote. Today we're doing the same with an old British catch-phrase that you'll never see penned again: "Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it". Yep, strangled on multiple fronts and after almost two hundred years in existence, the old travel chestnut finally went belly-up. This, whilst sad on an institutional level, is obviously catastrophic for its workers. No, we were not personally impacted by its demise: we're flying out with Emirates thank-you-very-much (they, miraculously, being the cheapest option). My parents had though, by a margin of only twelve hours, just made it back to the UK on a TC flight. Lucky they were; their luggage, less so. The official explanation was that due to the flight's late running it would not perform its usual refill on
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