Cambridge station
Said goodbye to C and the girls in too-perfunctory fashion due to general travel nervousness. Commuters piling up for 0745 First Capital Connect sardine can to KX... And it's here. In first class with academics and City types.
Heathrow Express
On the 0925 to Heathrow, slightly later train than planned. So much for their free wifi service - it doesn't work. Travelling with the iPad will reveal just how rubbish public wifi availability is I think. London rubbish generally, all full of people. Underground is like Third Reich transportation system...
A380
The big plane has USB points and enough room, in premium economy at least, for a full sized human being. Relatively luxurious in fact. The entertainment appears to consist of The Green Lantern, and.. er.. that's about it. Useless. Good job I've got the pad and the aforementioned USB port. So... a bit of reading, dinner, 6 hours kip or thereabouts I hope. Then Singapore, more food, naps, and oz on time for maybe dinner and a sleep. Missing a good night's sleep is what it amounts to I guess, and so long as this can be rectified with drugs we should be ok. It turns out we have to get off the stupid aeroplane at stupid Singapore just to go through stupid security and come back again. This at about midnight body time. Presumably this is so they can vacuum the plane and sell us stuff at duty free. I'd much prefer just to sit in my pod. On the plus side, have found the Qantas entertainment better than I first thought. Watched Source Code. Meh. Not so forthcoming with the booze as Gervaise on the Colorado to LHR flight earlier in the year. Maybe a good thing, maybe not. About 5 body time and have smacked self with melatonin and stugeron. Hello (hopefully) oblivion...
Somewhere over central Asia, unable to sleep
So much for drugs...
Singapore
A couple of hours in the transit lounge, aircon unable to fully exclude the 100% humidity. Tipping down with rain. Had to go through security again, but quickly back aboard the A380 and another glass of champagne yay! Stewardesses are now Aussie.
1 comments:
Hah! Did they tell you at check-in that you can't take your duty frees off the plane? Had the same thing at Bangkok in March on the way to Oz. I would be have been foxtrotting outraged to have lost my stash of spirits because some form never told me there was a pointless security check to get back to the same seat.
And you're a big pvssy for needing drugs to cope with a bit of flying. In premium economyvfor heaven's sake. What is wrong with copious quantities of beer and wine?
Jealous you've been on an A380.
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