real-time blogging but at least I have some time to say a little about
how we got here.
Judy and I are on our honeymoon to Portugal and Spain, spanning over
16 days. A quick transit at London Heathrow to get to Lisbon. We'll
then be spending some time there, and then take a roadtrip to a whole
town declared a national heritage site called Sintra. Returning to
Lisbon for another night, we'll then be jumping onto an overnight
train to Madrid, then head over to Valencia for their annual festival,
the "Burning of the Fallas". After that, we'll head over to Barcelona
to chill out at a beachside hotel, then swapping for an inner city
local apartment to really get a feel for Catalonia life. If we're
lucky, maybe even watch the Barcelona football team at the Camp Nou!
Finally, heading back to HK via London again.
Since Judy works at Northwest Airlines she was able to get us staff
discount on flights with partner airlines, BA being one of them. So
when we got the the check-in desk at the appointed time, we saw a
large group of about 16 others already there also waiting to get
onboard. There was even a Filipino lady who had been waiting for a
flight to London for over 8hrs. The longest she had to wait to get her
family on a plane during July was a whole week! I don't know how she
handled the wait. Even though the BA counter put our names on the
waiting list, the kind lady also put our names on for the earlier
flight, only afew mins difference. When they called out names, it felt
like we were trying to win the lottery. (Speaking of which, I failed
to buy a ticket for the HK lottery of HK$33mil!) Well, I imagine I
would imagine so, if we weren't dropped out of the running for the
earlier flight. It got rather anxious for the roll call on staff
allowed onboard for the BA032 flight we wanted. The remaining staff
all got on, except for this older couple who worked at Quantas. The
counter asked the gent, halfway through the list: "Are you a retired
captain?" to which he said honestly "no." Everyone else slapped their
heads, all thinking the same thing! "D'oh!" and indeed it cost them
their seats as everyone else got called. Rather stunning, side Judy
told me while dashing through customs that traditionally BA and
Quantas are close partners, so its surprising that the couple would be
left out.
Anyhow, we got seperate seats, but it turns out that the seat next to
me was the Fillipino lady. So she offered to swap seats with Judy so
that we could sit together! She also benefitted too by getting Judy's
seat 28D, a front row seat.
We were so rushed in fact, that we thrust out hand luggage into the
cabins and forgot to take out our magazines, toothbrush and neck pillow!
Anyway, enough for now. 2hrs into the flight and my eyes are
absolutely dead bow, a mere 1mm slit to see what I'm rapidly typing
away. (2am HKT).
G'nite!
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