Eastbound

Posted on 2008/03/16 02:26:24 (March 2008).

[Friday 14th March]
Today me and Chie flew to Japan for our 2-and-a-bit week holiday.

One of the handy things about living where we do is that, thanks in part to the overpriced but very convenient Heathrow Express, we can get from the door of our flat to the check-in desk at the airport in under an hour. So as our flight was at 1PM, and we gave it the bare minimum 2 hour check-in, it meant we could get up at a respectable hour, and even leave time for packing and tidying the flat a bit.

By my standards it was a great flight - as any regular readers of my blog will know I absolutely hate flying, but for some reason I was really very relaxed and actually quite comfortable for pretty much the whole 11 hours. I suppose partly this was down to being in Premium Economy - the extra little bit of space really seem to make the difference for me (although Chie seemed less convinced) - but I think there was also an element of the relief about finally being on holiday and the end of a rather frantic week or two. That and it is always much nicer to fly with Chie than by myself. The food was a bit of a disappointment though - a bit bland and insubstantial. Plus the movie selection wasn't that appealing - I watched Beowulf which I didn't really enjoy, and started to watch The Dark is Rising, but decided it was too crap to bear after about 20 minutes and stopped watching. I did quite enjoy Ratatouille though - a charmingly offbeat Pixar film about a rat who loved cooking.

Technically (somehow or other) my birthday started while we were in the air, so I opened my cards on the plane which was another nice distraction. Chie told the flight attendants it was my birthday, and whilst there wasn't a cake on board, they did manage to find some rather nice chocolates, and also (slightly oddly) gave me a great big bag full of little packets of shortbread. Which was nice.

Hope you a great time in Japan..
Please post some nice pics

Posted by Jerry at 2008/03/16 09:37:23.

Hi Jerry - yes thanks, I am enjoying myself - but sorry I don't seem to be producing much in the way of pictures so far - I think we're not really so interested in doing much exploring / touristy stuff this time round, and instead are concentrating on eating, drinking and meeting friends - all of which is not necessarily very conducive to making interesting photos!

Posted by John at 2008/03/19 14:55:24.

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