So finally the skies are open!
April 21st, 2010
It’s been a strange week. Living as we do on a holiday island ’somewhere in the Atlantic’, this week has been strange with the effects of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. Who would have thought that this would have caused more chaos in air travel than 911, and have such far reaching knock-on effects many thousands of miles away.
Many of our neighbour (as others across Europe and beyond) have had their businesses hurt badly as an after effect. It’s not just the airlines financially affected.
Our island depends heavily on tourism and since the skies were closed the tourists on the island have in many cases spent their budgets and been unable to get home. This to the businesses means a week of little or no tourism revenue – due to the fact the ‘new money’ for the week has not arrived. And, who knows how long it will take to get back to normal.
And, lets not forget those people on vacation – missing, work, out of funds, in some cases over-charged for accommodation they weren’t expecting to have to pay for. A bad week for so many in the struggling economies of Europe…
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