THEY provide an opportunity to stretch legs between flights, but an increasing number of people are making even more of their long-haul stopovers by turning them into mini breaks.
SATURDAY: Full training session SUNDAY: Arsenal v Everton MONDAY: Full training session TUESDAY: AM - train at their Hertfordshire base PM - fly to Naples WEDNESDAY: AM - confined to hotel, bar a short walk to stretch legs Napoli v Arsenal 7.
The plane flying from Nairobi to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, was very small and had no spare seats so stretch legs so I decided to kill time [by] chatting to him," wrote Mekki Elmograbi in Saturday's edition of the privately owned al-Sudani newspaper.