Sunday, May 27, 2007

Sleeping in airports

We had our first exciting homelessness night last night. Got in from Morocco just after 10 and being the tight asses we are decided to bunk out in the airport for the night instead of paying for a hostel. We wandered around for a while and saw heaps of people trying to sleep in an assortment of positions an locations. Some were across chairs, some had found chairs with wheels and out them together and lots were just on the hard marble outside the police station. I think ours was the best. We found a few checkout counters right down one end of the airport where nobody was and decided to set up beds on the luggage scales ( the rubbery belt you put them on before getting on the plane). This was quite sqeet because we could put our bags at one end so that if anyone wanted to steal them they´d have to walk over us first and the rubber was much softer and warmer than the marble. I was quite worried that we might get into trouble but after a few police, cleaner and security rounds we realised that noone seemed to care at all. Got about 5 hours sleep all up I reckon. It was heaps of fun. We´re in Barcelona now until tues night when we go to Cairo. We have bought tickets to go from Barcelona to Berlin when we get back so we´ll be coming down Europe instead of up.

2 comments:

Squirk said...

Awesome.

Ever since discovering SleepingInAirports.com, I've wanted to try out that sort of thing.

Apparently Auckland International Airport rated #3 in the world at one time, as far as nice airports to sleep in.

hg said...

Well, imo, Alice made it sound a lot nicer and more comfortable than I found it, I had a terrible sleep, and for me, I felt like ass for the rest of the day. I also did it in Denver International, which was nicer, but uncomfortable..

A new experience though