Dubai to Melbourne
The Emirates flight from Marco Polo airport to Dubai took a bit over five hours and was fairly painless, as these things go. Landed in Dubai to be met by a smiling young man who shepherded us through security to the Hotel reception and to our room. I showered, interneted and went to bed, N being already asleep when I did so.
I slept quite well, getting up around 7am. We checked out a little after 8am, got a light breakfast at Paul's. N was struck by me having a pizza slice, since I had not ordered pizza once while we were in the Mediterranean. (It was one of the few savoury breakfast options.) We circumnavigated the Emirates terminal several times and hung out at our gate prior to boarding.
The 12+ hours flight from Dubai to Melbourne was and felt long. The flight was going on to Auckland and I had to explain to the nice elderly South African lady in the aisle seat next to me that Auckland was another 5 hours or so. She had come from Johannesburg, so was doing a lot of flying.
Having watched a couple of episodes on the Venezia-Dubai leg, I spent most of the Dubai-Melbourne leg working may way through Season 2 of Glee. I had resisted the Glee thing, not having a television connected to aerial or cable. But it has song and dance numbers.
Being met by a car service driver at the airport was very pleasant. He drove us to the office, we transferred our stuff to my car and we drove to N's place. Breakfast as Santucci's in Camberwell was followed by brunch at Dekko in Camberwell with N, mishymoocow, sjkasabi and HLG, montjoye and drwhacky. Then back to N's place and then home. Back to the mundane.
I slept quite well, getting up around 7am. We checked out a little after 8am, got a light breakfast at Paul's. N was struck by me having a pizza slice, since I had not ordered pizza once while we were in the Mediterranean. (It was one of the few savoury breakfast options.) We circumnavigated the Emirates terminal several times and hung out at our gate prior to boarding.
The 12+ hours flight from Dubai to Melbourne was and felt long. The flight was going on to Auckland and I had to explain to the nice elderly South African lady in the aisle seat next to me that Auckland was another 5 hours or so. She had come from Johannesburg, so was doing a lot of flying.
Having watched a couple of episodes on the Venezia-Dubai leg, I spent most of the Dubai-Melbourne leg working may way through Season 2 of Glee. I had resisted the Glee thing, not having a television connected to aerial or cable. But it has song and dance numbers.
Being met by a car service driver at the airport was very pleasant. He drove us to the office, we transferred our stuff to my car and we drove to N's place. Breakfast as Santucci's in Camberwell was followed by brunch at Dekko in Camberwell with N, mishymoocow, sjkasabi and HLG, montjoye and drwhacky. Then back to N's place and then home. Back to the mundane.