9pm. We settled into 71j and 71 h for the Brisbane to Dubai leg on this doubledecker daddy of all planes . This was the only leg of our flights to and from Nice where we had not managed to secure a window seat and also the only leg on the A380.
As I sat waiting take off I wondered why on earth plane manufacturers would skimp on seat cushioning as I could tell my deriere was not going to last a 15 hr journey in a sitting position.
We watched a couple of movies, "A lady in the van" and "Eddie the Eagle"and were served a 2 meals.
Jim had calculated that to avoid jet lag we should sleep on the last half of this flight which is alright for him who can sleep at the click of your finger, even no doubt on wet concrete. Me, on the other hand, would be lucky to even get to that wonderful state of drifting off before the aching of said deriere or the jink of my neck would demand a rearrange. I managed to find a few positions to rotate through that didnt involve too much sitting.
Fortunately I can even rearrange Jims arms and legs to accomodate my vain attempts at these "sleeping" positions without waking him from his heavy stupor! How do people do that! Gone are the days when I could lie all the kids on the 3 seats and fit nicely stretched out under the seats on the floor and get some quality shut eye lolled asleep by the humming of 4 jet engines.
Dubai to Nice went without a hitch and we landed in Nice mid afternoon and caught a local bus to our accomodation La Hameau just outside St Paul de Vence .(photos) landing in Dubai, flying over french riviera,arriving at accomodation, our room. #
As I sat waiting take off I wondered why on earth plane manufacturers would skimp on seat cushioning as I could tell my deriere was not going to last a 15 hr journey in a sitting position.
We watched a couple of movies, "A lady in the van" and "Eddie the Eagle"and were served a 2 meals.
Jim had calculated that to avoid jet lag we should sleep on the last half of this flight which is alright for him who can sleep at the click of your finger, even no doubt on wet concrete. Me, on the other hand, would be lucky to even get to that wonderful state of drifting off before the aching of said deriere or the jink of my neck would demand a rearrange. I managed to find a few positions to rotate through that didnt involve too much sitting.
Fortunately I can even rearrange Jims arms and legs to accomodate my vain attempts at these "sleeping" positions without waking him from his heavy stupor! How do people do that! Gone are the days when I could lie all the kids on the 3 seats and fit nicely stretched out under the seats on the floor and get some quality shut eye lolled asleep by the humming of 4 jet engines.
Dubai to Nice went without a hitch and we landed in Nice mid afternoon and caught a local bus to our accomodation La Hameau just outside St Paul de Vence .(photos) landing in Dubai, flying over french riviera,arriving at accomodation, our room. #
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