Here and there again

Yep, I'm traveling again, been back in the old country for Christmas and thought I should probably try and get back to this blogging business. Maybe that can be a New Year Resolution. It'll make up for my usual resolution to not have resolutions.

The flight over was uneventful, except for having to do the first leg in economy. I don't mind this but I do get a bit pissed off when the lovely Singapore airlines ladies are trying to force food on me at 3 in the morning. Just let me sleep goddamn it and I'll get some brekkie at Changi. After all I had 6 hours to kill. Still at least the red eye from Perth was pretty quiet. Even babies and bogans have to sleep at some point.

I'd booked a long layover in Singapore because I thought I'd have to check imagine as I'd booked two separate tickets, one, using my points, to Singapore and back and one, which I paid for, from Singapore to London and back. It turns out you don't need to recheck in so I had the aforementioned six hours to kill. Luckily at Changi that's not too hard and I had loads of 30 Rock on the iPad to distract me.

The next leg was in the pointy end and was as lovely as ever, apart from the two people sitting in front of me. One was a designer for Dyson and the other was a derivatives trader and they were both dicks. Constant discussion of who had worked where and who had spent the most on their car/house/ticket/whisky/Christmas presents. Very tedious and very loud too. It would seem they're based in Singapore to keep them away from civilized people. The flight was unusual as it was mostly during awake time, normally I do the night flight, so it was odd to be able to see the ground for a fair bit of the trip. Here is a picture of some Himalayas:

And here's a picture of London:




I think you can just make out Tower Bridge and the City but no evidence of a sky diving Queen (first Olympic reference). It always amazes me that the flight path into HeaThrow is directly over central London. All these heavily laden, massive aircraft flying right over the centre of the most populated city in the UK. Good job they took the bottles of water off us all before we got on or think of the havoc that could be wreaked.

You may notice the difference in picture framing and quality between those two. That's what happens after nine hours on a plane, I loose my eye a bit.

So I'm back and Christmas has been and gone, I've eaten too much, drunk too much and got cold and wet. A few things are noticeably different here, but I'll get onto that tomorrow.

'Till then here's some of the green and pleasant lands.