Letters to the Travel Editor
Swede dreams
Hey there, don’t give swedes such a bad rap [“Travel Wires”, November 6]. Try them mashed with carrot, butter and cracked pepper alongside pork chops, or diced in a lamb casserole along with onions, carrots, dried apricots and spices such as cinnamon. Yum.
Margaret Payne, Milford
The Travel Editor replies: I’d fly all the way to Southland for that!
Royal support I
Loved “3 Spots for avoiding the Royals” [‘Letters to the Travel Editor’, October 30]. Not everyone is in favour of these bludgers.
Simon Gilmore
Royal support II
Oh dear Winston, “too big for your boots” you are being labelled [”Letters to the Travel Editor”, Travel, November 13]. I was so much in agreement with your comments on the recent “Royals” visit.
I am a Brit, and do not like this sloppy, soppy sentiment that goes along with their hand-holding and “acting the part” and also with the way so many people drool over them. Maybe not enough excitement in “little old New Zealand”.
Thankfully, all over for now but Suzanne Mexted Dykes needs to get some balance. Hang your coat up on the peg again Winston, we need you and your common sense. Florence Mainwaring,
Tauranga
On moaning I
Alexander Bisley’s piece, “Quit Your Moaning”, in Travel [October 30] is a delight. Thank goodness for someone else who doesn’t find something to criticise in “the wonders of flight”. We don’t know how lucky we are.
Lesley Clark,
Manurewa
The Travel Editor replies: I fly a lot — and every single time I’m amazed by the entire thing.
On moaning II
I am driven to write to you in total disgust as to A. Bisley’s “Quit Your Moaning” article [Travel, October 30]. Firstly, in paragraph two, any reference to the appalling conditions and transportation of Polish people in cattle trucks is wholly distasteful and disrespectful to all those who suffered, and their descendants, who can never come to terms with their fate. Whether these are your words or not, Mr Bisley, in my opinion this is gutter writing. If I was a travel advertiser in the New Zealand Herald, I would also take a grim opinion to your reference to London as “creaky and fiendishly expensive”, to this point I would consider withdrawing further advertising. Mr Bisley, your article, “Quit Your Moaning”, is all about you moaning. An apology is needed to all whom you have offended.
Yours sincerely,
David Campbell-Smith
On the road
Having just returned from a week near Mt Hutt, we saw on more than one occasion human faeces and toilet paper left on the ground close to a public toilet; these lazy sods need running out of the country. Regards,
Robert Bicker
On at the movies
Re: Your “Caught short haul” editorial reference [Travel, October 30] to “I told you to go before we left home”. I love it. Even in my 77 years, the memory of such parental admonishment remains.
Shame about these days when, despite best efforts prior, I had trouble sitting through a 110-minute movie and, when I received a feedback form from Event Cinemas next day I couldn’t resist suggesting, in the “any other comments” box, an enclosed in-theatre urinal, with full-screen vision and audio, for the less continent.
Steve Jones, New Plymouth