Saturday, 26 March 2016
Friday, 29 January 2016
A Journey of a Thousand Steps, Starts
So I'm off on my travels again, it's bean a while but old habit die hard. This time it's Canada, it's going to be cold and I have a number of trips over the coming months.
I left dears old blighty from terminal 4 Heathrow, the queens terminal, apparently, who new. It was simple, helpful staff and the timings worked well never to long a wait in one place, it almost as if some one had planned it that why.
Bordered the plane, which wasn't full, allowing me space to spread out a little, as I'm travelling economy, having an empty seat next to me is a gift worth having. Let's be honest about it when your travelling economy, your self loading luggage. So in order to make the experience a little more tolerable, here are a couple of tips I have come up with over the years.
Put all the small stuff you are going to want in the planes cabin in a small bag in you hand luggage before getting onto the plan. That way when you get on board all you have todo is grab that bag, rather than being that person in the middle of the isle going through the numerous pockets on their hand luggage looking for stuff and slowing every body else down and making new friends. This approach also stop you having to rummage around in your seat, pockets trying to find stuff through the flight an helps you from losing things when your getting of the flight in a hurry because you are just so relived to have actual survived.
Put the blanket over your lap when you final get comfortable, it will catch all the crap that's going to fall in your lap.
When you get your inflight meal you will be asked a question 'meat or fish'? or in the case of this flight 'meat or pasta'? do not answer 'what'? as in 'what type of meat or what type of pasta dish is it' you will end-up in a feed back loop. Look you are 35 thousand feet above sea level, travelling in a pressurised tin tube, you are suffering for sensory depravation form the noise of the engines and you sinuses have dried out due to the recycled air. It doesn't matter if it is meat or fish toothpaste you cant taste it so my advice is go for the meal everybody else isn't having. Normally the pasta or fish choice.
The next thing you will notice is that the meal is warm. . . . .ish and that the most appealing thing on you try is actually the bread role for some strange reason, the only problem is that the butter is frozen solid and the plastic knife you are given just snapped on the butter. The trick here is not to open the butter and place in one corner of the warm . . . . ish meal. That way the butter will melt and you can use the spoon to spread it on the bread role.
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They make you walk halfway there, I swear
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I left dears old blighty from terminal 4 Heathrow, the queens terminal, apparently, who new. It was simple, helpful staff and the timings worked well never to long a wait in one place, it almost as if some one had planned it that why.
Bordered the plane, which wasn't full, allowing me space to spread out a little, as I'm travelling economy, having an empty seat next to me is a gift worth having. Let's be honest about it when your travelling economy, your self loading luggage. So in order to make the experience a little more tolerable, here are a couple of tips I have come up with over the years.
Put all the small stuff you are going to want in the planes cabin in a small bag in you hand luggage before getting onto the plan. That way when you get on board all you have todo is grab that bag, rather than being that person in the middle of the isle going through the numerous pockets on their hand luggage looking for stuff and slowing every body else down and making new friends. This approach also stop you having to rummage around in your seat, pockets trying to find stuff through the flight an helps you from losing things when your getting of the flight in a hurry because you are just so relived to have actual survived.
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Home for the next 8 hours
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Put the blanket over your lap when you final get comfortable, it will catch all the crap that's going to fall in your lap.
When you get your inflight meal you will be asked a question 'meat or fish'? or in the case of this flight 'meat or pasta'? do not answer 'what'? as in 'what type of meat or what type of pasta dish is it' you will end-up in a feed back loop. Look you are 35 thousand feet above sea level, travelling in a pressurised tin tube, you are suffering for sensory depravation form the noise of the engines and you sinuses have dried out due to the recycled air. It doesn't matter if it is meat or fish toothpaste you cant taste it so my advice is go for the meal everybody else isn't having. Normally the pasta or fish choice.
The next thing you will notice is that the meal is warm. . . . .ish and that the most appealing thing on you try is actually the bread role for some strange reason, the only problem is that the butter is frozen solid and the plastic knife you are given just snapped on the butter. The trick here is not to open the butter and place in one corner of the warm . . . . ish meal. That way the butter will melt and you can use the spoon to spread it on the bread role.
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100 Kent, Marriott, street view
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