The flight from Singapore to Heathrow was on the new ginormous airbus (and yay no unexpected mid-air plummeting, the oxygen masks remained in their little holders, I did not die in firey ball of melted plane). I have no idea how the hell anything big can fly off into the great unknown. Or rather ‘the sky’ which isn’t really that unknown. Especially for pilots.
Flight was just shy of 14 hours. I don’t even want to do anything I enjoy for that long. I was bored. Very bored. Why is there no in-flight blogging? I could have done live blogging of a 14 hour flight and had you all on the edge of your seat. Imagine that. I walked around the plane. Well up and down the isle (clearly a good thing as have not yet died of blood clot to heart caused by DVT). By a happy coincidence of Economageddon, Chinese New Year, and plane the size of small Pacific nation, it was half empty so I had a row of three seats to myself. After dinner, a movie, the squillionth game of tetris, and having re-read the in-flight menu 27 times, I pulled up the seat arm dividers and stretched out thereby pretending I was in wankerclass and had flat bed in my suite with a massive tele screen and small singaporean boy to bring me champagne periodically.
And then suddenly we were there. Terminal 3 at Heathrow. I did a ‘yay my bags are here’ victory dance at the carousel. And Noshy was at the gate with pre-bought Heathrow Express tickets and then we were in a black cab from Paddington calling Science Guy. Dropped off my bags, had shower and changed pants at Hostel and suddenly I am standing in Chiswick High Road in the freezing darkness and a double-decker bus roared past. At High Road House, we had champagne cocktails even though it may have been breakfast (I couldn’t work out the time difference in my brain).
After a pretty good sleep considering, I have unpacked, hooked up to free wi-fi and am about to go foraging for food and the paper. Today it’s all about buying a UK mobile, interview suit and essential supplies from M&S.
42 sleeps until Science Guy gets here.
Comments
Yay for sas – welcome to the freezing darkness! :>)
glad to hear you made it with a safe flight.:)