The Titanic Awards

Name Catherine Leech
Who? Catherine is co-founder and director of 101 Holidays and 101 Short Breaks and has worked in the travel industry for 27 years.
Age 51
Countries Visited 60

Titanic Nominations
1. Worst Flight A jolly jaunt from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman which switched in a heartbeat to a nerve jangling “is this the end?” half hour as the pilot asked us to check the manual to find out why lights were flashing and buzzers buzzing while he grappled with the controls. Yikes.
2. Worst Inflight Meal Air Malta in the 1980s. During some 50 flights in 2 years, the meal choice never changed regardless of the time of day. It was luke-warm chicken with gloopy white stuff or ham with gloopy red stuff.
3. Worst Train Ride an overnight train and ferry journey from Sicily to Naples in August. No available seats, thick heat, screaming bambini, unintelligible Italian bullies (most of them the mamas of the bambini), stinky loos, a miserably hungry boyfriend and smart pickpockets.
4. Worst Travel Gadget The mini hand-held fan. What a great idea – that is until one of the blades flies off and hits the unsuspecting stranger standing next to you in the face. Not a pretty site and not a happy bloke.
5. Worst Beer I love Belgian fruit beers and head straight for the Kriek or Frambosen when I’m in Belgium. Belgian banana beer, however, is quite another matter – truly vile wherever and whenever.

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