November 8, 2024 7.43AM

Highlight of the journey to Canadaland: there are no departure announcements in the Schiphol airport (Amsterdam). None. A supreme blessing given I’m in this holding pen for most of 16 hours.

In the hostel in Istanbul I made an impassioned speech that concluded “If you have to use a PA system more than twice a year, you’ve really fucked up”.

We’re all deaf to announcements anyway, so in over-announced arenas we just exist in perpetual distress. Every time someone stands up we’re like, oh, is this us?!, no, still four more hours.

Fuck announcements, and thank you Schiphol! Very cool.