I landed safely before 5pm and have been trying to resolve a phone issue since. For now, I have managed to get my phone onto WiFi, even if it won't play ball on working as an actual phone!
I actually watched the plane land -by that, I mean that there was a camera mounted to the underside of the plane and you could switch your tv to show it. So, I saw our front wheel touch down and give off that familiar puff of smoke during first contact. I only realised this feature after take off so only managed to see the city's lights on the way out of England. Pretty cool I think, but maybe not so good for somebody terrified of flying! It was also useful to see when taxi was over.
Airport is surrounded by mountainous hills - very much more scenic than Heathrow's construction backdrop. There should be a rather dodgy phone photo attached to this. DSlr staying in bag dismantled until I get on ship!
The flight was great except for some reasonable turbulence - my drink was saved from spilling by a quick downing. Cathay Pacific are great and I reckon I could have done a full 24 hour flight on that plane with no problems. Food was surprisingly good too.
Hopefully I can get the actual phone element working here so when I get to Australia I can exploit the Vodafone passport.
Will post any noteworthy updates as they come...
I actually watched the plane land -by that, I mean that there was a camera mounted to the underside of the plane and you could switch your tv to show it. So, I saw our front wheel touch down and give off that familiar puff of smoke during first contact. I only realised this feature after take off so only managed to see the city's lights on the way out of England. Pretty cool I think, but maybe not so good for somebody terrified of flying! It was also useful to see when taxi was over.
Airport is surrounded by mountainous hills - very much more scenic than Heathrow's construction backdrop. There should be a rather dodgy phone photo attached to this. DSlr staying in bag dismantled until I get on ship!
The flight was great except for some reasonable turbulence - my drink was saved from spilling by a quick downing. Cathay Pacific are great and I reckon I could have done a full 24 hour flight on that plane with no problems. Food was surprisingly good too.
Hopefully I can get the actual phone element working here so when I get to Australia I can exploit the Vodafone passport.
Will post any noteworthy updates as they come...
Glad to hear your have made the first leg of the journey with only the near spillage of a drink. Have a safe and swift transfer to Aus,
ReplyDeleteLove Jane xx