Sam Lee again concentrates on traditional songs he learned from Gypsy travellers; they are performed in no-nonsense, almost crooned style, but with startlingly original settings.
I later learned that other travellers had run-ins with the same group.
The journalist, Scott McCartney, spoke to a group of corporate travel managers to find out what they had learned that could help ordinary travellers travel better.
Travellers have learned to equate the easyJet brand with safe and affordable air travel.
Air travellers soon learned not to carry them (or to put them in hold baggage) and turnover fell by a third as airport sales all but ceased.
On the bus, the cell phones came out, and confused travellers gradually learned the ghastly news from their friends watching television: At 3 20 p.m., the Andrew J. Barberi, one of nine ferries in the fleet, had careered off course and slammed into a concrete pier on Staten Island.
It's not just hardened commuters in the capital, either; the survey was conducted on the Northern Rail network, and concluded that "fare evasion was so commonplace that a proportion of their fellow travellers had learned how to 'play the system'".
Some of the guys I learned with are grand polar travellers – you learn systems, planning, operating in something which isn't a mountain but is an equally hostile environment.
This effect does not significantly change from trial 21 to 30, probably because travellers had already learned during first informed trials.
This can be interpreted, with respect to the "No ATIS" stage of the experiment, as a significant difference (effect) probably because travellers had already learned during trials 6 to 10, unlike during the first five trials.
But until the expensive device hits the market at the end of 2013, Google has a few lesser-known and more affordable apps to help travellers learn about their destination.
