![]() ![]() That craving places him in a perverse minority smaller than that of travellers who actively look forward to the in-flight meals prepared at Gate Gourmet's kitchens: one of several access- restricted sites he visits to show us that "behind each successful flight lay the coordinated efforts of hundreds of souls". Our favourite philosopher admits that he often longs "for my plane to be delayed" to secure more airport-haunting time. So it proves at the outset of this shrewd, perceptive and gently ironic record of the week he spent as a writer in residence at Heathrow's Terminal Five. Admirers of the genial equipoise that Alain de Botton brings to his journeys behind the surface of everyday life have long suspected that he breathes a purer air than the rest of us. ![]()
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