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  I wonder if people will carry on in future years attempting this mass Christmas movement. Absolutely millions try to go hither and tither and as we can see the nations travel infrastructures just cannot cope...and the result is misery.
  
  It seems like 30,000 people couldnt fly yesterday...the biggest culprit or victim depending on how you look at it, being Easyjet.
  
  In some cases people want to go home for Christmas to their families which is understandable, but is it worthwhile attempting just go away on a leisure break for example...it just seems to result in misery. If the weather doesnt get you the strikers will. The Eurostar drivers had planned to strike as had the BA cabin crew...a legal loophole saved us from that one.
  
  One other worrying aspect and I think I mentioned it before, is how thinly staffed these big name travel companies are...it may all work slick and fine when all goes hunky dory, but one whiff of trouble and they just dont have enough staff in depth...perhaps a beleagured girl or two on the front desk but after that...nothing. Travellers are left for long periods with no food, no drink, no information, and one story said there were 145 kids on one of those Eurostar trains left in the dark for 15 hours and again with no food, drink etc.
  
  As we said above here in Dover we have hundreds of travellers walking the streets heading for the Ferries and the trains and nobody can help them. Even those in their cars for hours on end must realise its all a mugs game at this time of the year.

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