I've updated the flight tracker details on the blog so they should be true to our rescheduled journey.
The man we spent some hours with yesterday in the first class lounge had numerous business interests (boat builders in Florida, ranch in Montana and he was President of some other firm as well as being the layman in charge of a fire department somewhere in Montana). Montana, he says, is 500 miles wide and 200 miles high - about the same land as England - but with only 1 million inhabitants and the nearest supermarket is 30 miles away. He was clearly a died-in-the-wool Republican and related to us the time when he met and spoke with the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Brussels - he said Breznez was a very well briefed man who was multi-lingual and spoke with him in English - not sure if that meant that the two of them spoke the same language, though - I had to keep asking this American guy to repeat things and then to ask him what he actually meant - for example, a "root beer float" is vanilla ice cream with root beer poured over it! I told him I had tried root beer only once, had thought it must be an acquired taste and that I thought I might not live long enough to acquire the taste for it! He said some people do the same with Coke - I checked that he meant Coca-Cola and not 'coke'!
He also boasted that he owned a .38 gun and we discussed our differing attitudes to gun ownership. He said that the answer to a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun! I made it clear that guns are very hard to get hold of in the UK and that the weapon of choice is the knife - it involves more personal contact with one's victim!
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