An airport can be a dangerous place.

Just ask Brandon Barron, who recently flew from Charlotte to Orlando with his wife, four young kids and his mother, who has Alzheimer’s.

“My three-year-old son was holding on to one of our bags while on the escalator,” he recalls. “The bag started to tumble down the stairs — and he tumbled with it.”

With most travelers fixated on aviation safety — which is understandable, given some of the recent high-profile incidents — they’re less concerned about safety inside the airport itself. But that may be a mistake. 

Meg Wubbenhorst didn’t think twice before ordering a space cake at a coffee shop in Amsterdam recently. But maybe she should have. As she was about to discover, it was something she should never have eaten on vacation.

“I saw Anthony Bourdain eat one years ago and thought it’d be fun to try it,” she said. “But I’m not Anthony Bourdain.”

No, she isn’t. Wubbenhorst is an executive coach based in London. And in case you don’t know, a space cake is a famous cannabis-infused dessert.

Holidaymakers have been warned not to indulge too much on the flight home as police ramp up breathalyser action at one UK airport.

Officers stopped drivers leaving Teesside Airport on Monday (July 28) morning in ‘Operation Take Off’, which targeted passengers who had flown into the North East airport and had struggled to control their boozing at 30,000 feet.