No Place like it

Wednesday 27th

Yesterday's flight was not too bad - 7 1/2 hours in the air. The check in clerk was perhaps understating the situation when he said there were free seats. The Busniess class cabin is split into 2 sections. I was in the rear where there are 4 rows of 6. There were on 5 of us there, almost outnumbered by the staff. Needless to say service was very good.

The plane was an A330, the same as used by Thai but the seats were much better. You couldn't quite lay horizontal but the seat did recline to almost flat. I'm not sure whether they were as good as the Qantas sky beds but they were not far off. The best I've had so far are still the Cathay 747s with the diagonal beds.

I watched Gran Torino, with Clint Eastwood. It has been available on every flight so I thought I'd better not miss it. Unfortunately this plane didn't have movies on demand, so by the time I foudn it, it had been running for a few minutes. I didn't try to watch anything else but actually had nearly 4 hours sleep. I was worried that this might have stopped me sleeping once I got home.

Passport and customs was pretty quick and I was soon in a taxi heading home. There was a fair bit of mail waiting and a bit of new email. I looked at the new Mensa crossword and figured out the grid before going to bed. I read the magazine till about 2am and then had a solid sleep through to 8 this morning. I then did most of the crossword before getting up

I'm sure it will be a few days before I've caught up with mail, messages, bills etc. and have got myself fully in sync with the time zone and can start working again. I have a hockey game tonight and a golf tournament on Friday as well.

I'm not expecting to be travelling again till end of september, assuming I go to the Vets Hockey Championships in Hobart. In the last 13months, May to May, I have had a total of 174 days away. This last trip has put me to Gold in the Qantas frequent flyer program.