A Week at the Airport > Likes and Comments

Dear Alain

I specially liked your comments on baggage, those who wait at the carousels and the scene in the arrivals hall with "chiefs of large corporations preparing for glacial limousine rides to the marble and orchid bedecked lobbies of their luxury hotels".

I enjoyed the book so much I featured it on my blog The Armchair Kitchen. I know you tweet rather than blog, but if you have ten minutes and would like to see what I wrote about your book, google The Armchair Kitchen and scroll down about 25 posts. The blog changes every day and is about the things that matter in life: food, books and children. The post about you is called "In Transit".

I look forward to your next book.

Judy

Dear Alain and Judy,

just leaving a note here to say I second your comment on A Week at the Airport. I so loved this book, it becomes unexpectedly funny and it's full of great quotes and memorable phrases. My favourite must be the family father who, upon lifting his luggage onto the belt at check-in, realises he's not actually going to escape anything because he's "bringing himself with him on his holiday".

A Week at the Airport was brilliant for me because I'm a business traveller and I've become the kind of person who has her laptop out before they ask and who carries all the liquids in a resealable bag as standard. It was like an indulgent look at the place (well, for me it isn't T5) where I spend so much time and the kinds of people that pass through.

I have also tried The Art of Travel and bought it as an audiobook, oh, probably 2 years ago. I'm afraid to say that I've still not got all the way through it. Audiobooks never end up getting my full attention whereas your writing needs just that - it just felt like I wasn't doing it justice. I'm looking forward to trying the new book on the Pleasures of Work.

While I've not got any direct questions to you as an author, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed A Week at the Airport.

Judy wrote: "Dear Alain

I specially liked your comments on baggage, those who wait at the carousels and the scene in the arrivals hall with "chiefs of large corporations preparing for glacial limousine rides..."

Thanks to both of you - I'm so glad you enjoyed my little airport book. It's been the most pleasurable book I ever wrote, it all happened in under 3 weeks - and I think I just got down whatever I felt most urgently at the time. I wish I could do another such book in another major centre of the modern world.