From Advertising Age:
Skies Reopen but Ad Execs Are Still Trying to Get Home
Online Travel Tales: Disco Party Boats and Stranded Bridesmaids
Posted by Emma Hall on 04.22.10 @ 03:18 PM
LONDON (AdAge.com) — The planes are back in the air, but it could be another two weeks before Europe gets back to normal following the six-day flight ban caused by the ash from an Icelandic volcano. Meanwhile, some stranded ad folks are finding online fame after discovering bizarre transport like Scandinavia's overnight disco party boat and the travails of a Publicis exec in wedding finery trying to get home to Brazil from London to be a bridesmaid.
Around 150,000 Brits have been trapped abroad, including Neil Christie, managing director of Wieden & Kennedy, London. He and six others took a one-day trip to see their Nokia client in Finland, and ended up staying for six days, sampling everything Helsinki has to offer.
"It's not so bad," he said stoically, "People are not fighting over Mars bars. It's relatively civilized. We've been waiting in a hotel, not camped out at a ferry docks."
Mr. Christie eventually traveled overnight with his team from Helsinki to Stockholm on a disco party boat, complete with a drag show at 9 p.m. They arrived in Stockholm, only to find the city's airport was the only major European airport still closed. They finally went by road to Copenhagen and then by air to London via Paris.