1,500-mile trip home by ferry, train and car

0 Comments | Leicester Mercury, Apr 21, 2010 | by GARY MITCHELL

Weary traveller Chris Torr is finally putting his feet up at home today – after grounded planes forced him to make a four-day trip across Europe.

The 40-year-old businessman made it home to Thornton at lunchtime yesterday following a 1,500-mile journey from Athens by ferry, train and hired car.

He is among hundreds of Leicestershire people who have faced travel misery because of the Icelandic volcanic eruS ption. Many are still stranded overseas.

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Mr Torr, who runs Leicester shopfitting company Task Displays, was on a short business trip in Athens when he learned his BA business class flight to the UK had been cancelled on Friday morning. He met three other British men taking the 33-hour ferry from Athens to Venice, from where they took a four-hour train journey to Milan.

Then they hired a car and drove through Sunday and Monday to Calais, before catching a ferry to Dover. It all cost them Pounds 500 each.

Mr Torr said: “It was a bit of an adventure, but I’m shattered. “I’ll be taking a day off after all this before I go back to work
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