10:10:10 The huge chunk of (admittedly very streamlined) metal which would somehow be carrying us half way around the world.
10:10:21 A bit of a close-up on our plane.
11:01:44 In the air now. I guess this is probably somewhere in Japan still, but it's pretty hard to tell.
11:02:13 It was so difficult to get the colours right on my camera - perhaps the window was confusing it, I'm not sure. The view was a lot clearer and sharper in real life.
11:02:59 Still though, I always like the blankets of cloud.
11:05:42 Some part of the coastline of Japan, I'd guess.
11:05:51 A bit of an island...?
11:06:32 Hmmm... really not much use.
11:07:26 Don't really know.
11:13:07 Somehow having part of the window frame in the shot seems to improve it a bit.
12:00:26 ...ssame sort of thing again.
12:01:50 Having discovered AirlineMeals.net during my stay in Japan, I thought I'd take a picture of my meal on the off chance I might later on get around to writing a review of it.
12:03:06 This first meal, lunch I guess, wasn't actually too bad, but there just wasn't enough of it. Also I got the impression mushrooms must have been on sale somehwere - both the main dish and the side dish were very mushroomy. Fine for me, as I happen to be very fond of mushrooms. Still though, a bit odd.
12:05:08 A rather unattractive picture of me part way through eating my aforementioned meal.
12:10:45 Chie's meal, which she could barely eat any of, bless her, because she was suffering from a stomach ache.
12:11:06 Another picture of Chie's meal.
12:11:17 I can't emphasize how much better the flight was, being able to travel with Chie, as opposed to travelling by myself.
12:52:36 I was attempting to make the little fish shaped soy sauce container look like it was swimmming along in deep blue water. It didn't really work.
13:18:22 Some of Siberia, I guess.
13:19:12 Some more of Siberia. I'm always struck by how barren it looks.
13:21:50 Particularly bleak here. Having spent the last two weeks in Japan, and before that having been in England, both places where it is actually quite difficult to get more than a few miles away from habitation, this is quite a stark contrast.
13:23:11 The mountains of Siberia, looking very unearthly.
13:39:51 Graham looks dreamily out of the window.
13:41:09 Graham enjoying the view again.
13:43:20 More Siberian landscapes.
13:44:02 ...and again.
17:11:15 KLM's snack, which has become something of a bone of contention for me. As if to rub salt into the wound, the non-vegetarian Pot Noodle type thing is described as "smag flavoured Kylling Chicken". Or perhaps Kylling is the Dutch word for chicken, and smag the word for flavour. Still, it's a rather unfortunate arrangement.
17:44:07 Graham enjoying the flight's audio services.
17:44:44 ...and again.
17:45:06 Me looking a bit sinister, scribbling down a weblog article using my new PDA.
17:45:45 The same again, but slightly less sinister.
18:29:26 I left my camera's clock on Japanese time, so by this point we'd been flying almost eight hours. We must be nearing Europe by this point.
20:48:29 The second main meal, lunch again I suppose, and this one was even more insubstantial than the first.
20:49:08 Another attempt at taking a picture of my meal, as the first one was at a funny angle.
22:05:34 This is, errr, somewhere or other in Europe.
22:06:09 Perhaps somewhere around Denmark?
22:06:34 Either way, this was not long before landing in Amsterdam, I think. Only a short connecting flight after that and we'd been back in England.