Plane Sailing

I have to admit I am not a huge fan of air travel. The bit in the middle where you are up in the air is ok but the arsing about at either end is a real pain. You know, the having to be at the airport ages before the flight because it now takes two days to get through security, just about having to strip down to your undies as part of the clearance process, only to then sit about in departures forever. At the destination end there is the mad panic as everyone tries to get off the plane first (why?) followed by the usual chaos at the baggage reclaim.

You can probably tell by the tone of this posting that I did not enjoy my last flight. The five and a half hour flight from Amsterdam to Kuwait was would have been fairly comfortable were it not for the following factors:

a) my dodgy knee (see previous posting)
b) the flight time - leaving mid afternoon, arriving around midnight Kuwait time
and finally
c) the man on the opposite side of the plane with the loud voice who did not appear to even stop talking in order to take a breath all the way from takeoff to landing and who was boring all and sundry with his views on life, the universe, and everything.........aaaargh.

Anyway, on the positive side, got here safe but tired and after a couple of days am starting to feel almost normal again.

Just a shame I have to go through the return journey in a couple of days time. Let's hope motor mouth is staying a bit longer!