Unsurprisingly, the most painful part of booking the holiday in Latvia -- Latvia! -- was forking over large sums of money to KLM for the flight to Riga. The actual ticket price wasn't so bad, but the airport taxes are astronomical. You can pretty much guarantee that you will add on 85 euros to the cost of any flight leaving Schiphol and for what? So that they can build a runway in Haarlem that adds an additional 30 minutes on to your journey time when you land on it? So that they can put X-ray machines at every gate but not staff them until just before the flight is due to depart so that you still have to queue for 30 minutes to go through them -- thus rendering the "privileges" of your expensive Privium card virtually null and void? So that they can provide inadequate ventilation systems at the many smoking areas, all of which are co-located with the food retail areas -- yum! A dose of nicotine with every bite! So that they can install TV screens in every departure area but only show CNN, thus guaranteeing you are depressed before you get on the plane?
And it's always raining when we land back at Schiphol. And, irrationally, I'm going to blame the airport for that, too.
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