Noo Yoik
Okay let’s be honest, a trip to New York was frankly a bit of a second choice. The States was always going to be somewhere to visit when I was old, and could only go to somewhere safe! However, I’d got a Amex/BA Companion Voucher that needed to be used before its expiry date. Although I really wanted to go to Brazil & Argentine using it, New York seemed a pretty reasonable compromise at the time when we booked the trip back in August last year. Then there was the re-election of the Orange Moron – so I was not at all enthused about helping the US economy after that! Just to dowse what enthusiasm I had, there was the Trump/Zelensky spat. Stuff that, the Yanks can stick it! I enquired about getting my costs/Avios points and Companion Voucher back, and although the replies from BA were favourable, but I’d have still been over £200 down on the deal. Could we go somewhere else using Avios and the Voucher at such short notice? Sadly it was way too late for that, so reluctantly, we...