Morning all.
Got back from Germany yesterday afternoon after a nine hour flight, and all is well, apart from the fact that I feel like I stayed up til about seven am and then got up at seven oh five, when in fact I went to bed a little after ten.
The trip was wonderful and I'll be putting up some photos later today, so keep an eye on my flickrstuffage.
One downbeat aspect of the trip was that after an hour's delay for takeoff and an hour into the seven hour flight TO Berlin, the plane turned around and headed back to Newark because they hadn't fully completed the paperwork to enter Oceanic Airspace. Well, that's what they told us, anyway. There was another hour's flying to the airport and another hour on the ground before we started the whole 7 hours...AND the movie Poseidon over again.
Honestly.
Apparently there might be some issue with le commentage - if you haven't got javascript enabled, things won't work. I'll put a decent note on the comments box at some point, just after I learn HTML, CSS, German, Russian and finish these two novels I'm working on called War and Peace and A Suitable Boy.
Turning around again sucks the big one. On our trip to Belgium last year, we turned around 2.5 hours into the flight because they said the backup systems were not working. Since it was a 9pm flight to begin with, this meant that we didn't get back to the airport until 2am. It took another 2 hours to get a new flight crew. Needless to say we missed the whole first day of our trip. Not amused.
Ouch Craige, that's terrible.
Hey, welcome back!
Next time they send you off on a trip somewhere, you should do this on the way back:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/12/06/no_airtrain_for.php