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"there's nowhere to go but on"
Jun. 15th, 2011 09:27 pmUpon arriving at Manchester Airport, I was immediately lost.
There's a video display board at the top of the steps from the train station. It lists which terminal each airline is in. Two screens, and then a "More coming..." message.
It never advanced.
So. 200 metres into the station, and I had no idea where to go.
Naturally, I walked across the landing I was on, to see if there was another screen on the other side. I found an old-fashioned paper display with the relevant information. I headed for the moving walkway.
Visible outside the glass tube that was the moving walkway were curved walls along a roadway, arranged not unlike a series of waves, with gaps in between them which were filled with foliage. I quickly deduced their purpose.
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There's a video display board at the top of the steps from the train station. It lists which terminal each airline is in. Two screens, and then a "More coming..." message.
It never advanced.
So. 200 metres into the station, and I had no idea where to go.
Naturally, I walked across the landing I was on, to see if there was another screen on the other side. I found an old-fashioned paper display with the relevant information. I headed for the moving walkway.
Visible outside the glass tube that was the moving walkway were curved walls along a roadway, arranged not unlike a series of waves, with gaps in between them which were filled with foliage. I quickly deduced their purpose.
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