Thursday, April 05, 2007
It's only just begun...
Hey folks, here's an email I sent out from Sydney, about... two days ago?
I'm in Sydney airport!
I had to get off my plane, I guess so they can clean it and bring on heaps more food before I get BACK on to go to Dubai. The BIG leg. It's massive, like 14hrs! Or 19... I can't remember, lots anyway. Feels like I've been flying for ages and I've only done the tiny bit. Man.
Anyway, I'm dying for some water and grizzling internally about the new rules about liquids. Luckily noone has noticed so far that my favourite hair product is actually 125mL, not 100, otherwise I guess it'd be gone. And it costs $15 so I'd be very cross. It's so weird, they make this big pedantic fuss and then noone really bothers to check. Like you could really do anything with that much stuff. Surely no more than you could do armed with the metal forks they still permit us to eat our dinner with.
All the transiting-to-Dubai passengers had a minor panic after we got off the plane. We were just let loose in the international terminal and couldn't see our ongoing flight on any screens. It turned up on the other side of the terminal, which some intrepid British folk discovered, so now we're all sitting around for an hour waiting to go back to the same seats we just peeled ourselves out of (think chewing gum).
Well, have a ball, I know I am...
... or will be, in about 24 hours.
I'm in Sydney airport!
I had to get off my plane, I guess so they can clean it and bring on heaps more food before I get BACK on to go to Dubai. The BIG leg. It's massive, like 14hrs! Or 19... I can't remember, lots anyway. Feels like I've been flying for ages and I've only done the tiny bit. Man.
Anyway, I'm dying for some water and grizzling internally about the new rules about liquids. Luckily noone has noticed so far that my favourite hair product is actually 125mL, not 100, otherwise I guess it'd be gone. And it costs $15 so I'd be very cross. It's so weird, they make this big pedantic fuss and then noone really bothers to check. Like you could really do anything with that much stuff. Surely no more than you could do armed with the metal forks they still permit us to eat our dinner with.
All the transiting-to-Dubai passengers had a minor panic after we got off the plane. We were just let loose in the international terminal and couldn't see our ongoing flight on any screens. It turned up on the other side of the terminal, which some intrepid British folk discovered, so now we're all sitting around for an hour waiting to go back to the same seats we just peeled ourselves out of (think chewing gum).
Well, have a ball, I know I am...
... or will be, in about 24 hours.
# posted by Doug @ 08:21 
