Conor Pope

If they're heading home, they might go, I forgot to buy a present for Joni or Mary or Tommy.

So they buy this stuff and it's almost always, always bad value for money.

And there's nothing worse when it comes to bad value for money.

If you're in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, they have all these lovely little boxes of Edam cheese and the like.

You could wait and go to Tesco and buy the same cheese for a quarter of the price.

It's not the same though.

And that's why, if you ever notice, Toblerones seem to do a roaring trade in airports.

Now, I don't see Toblerones being wildly popular in Ireland.

There's no disrespect to the chocolate.

I love Toblerones.

And I love airport Toblerones.

And my wife is the same.

We have to get a Toblerone when we go to the airport.

I was like, sure, we're just going to be looking at it for the next three weeks.

Let's wait till we get to the destination and buy some exotic Spanish or Italian chocolate instead.

And the other sneaky trick that airports do, and you don't see it so much in Dublin, but you do see it in a lot of airports like Gatwick,

When you arrive in and you're looking at the boarding gates or the notice boards announcing where the boarding gates are, you know your flight's in 90 minutes.

And you say, oh, what gate are we on?

Because we'll head straight to our gate.

Because going to the gate quickly is the one antidote to spending money that you don't need to spend at the airport.