Another trip!
WELL! I had been home for 16 full days. Enough to do the washing and tackle the garden. Then it was time to head off again.
3 Oct – Fly to Barcelona then do a road trip to Monaco.
28th Oct – Board Symphony of the Seas to Miami
9th November arrive in Miami and get off Symphony and onto Mariner of the Seas – the ship from the Global Odyssey.
12th November off Mariner and a night in Miami.
13th November board Vision of the Seas and sail through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles.
29th November arrive in Los Angeles and fly home that night.
1st December arrive home.
Yep… an insane crazy year. Lucky me!!!!
Had a great trip to Barcelona. Business with Qatar Airways. Thanks qantas points. The plane to Doha was amazing.
The seats were in suites. About the same size as many business seats but has a closable wall. Was wonderful. And the two seats in the middle had a centre wall that pulled down totally. Making a double bed. I peaked in an one couple and it looked wonderful. I was talking to the lady and confessed to peeking. She said it was even better than it looks.
I had the same plane from Canberra to Sydney, then on to Doha – 15 hr leg.
5 movies, two meals and a 3 hr doze and I was there.
I had an eight hour stop over on Doha. I went up to the lounge and had. Drink and a snack then went to wait for a quiet room originally they told me I could get one by about 2 am bit got it at 1 am. They are just a small room. No door, but PowerPoints benches and 2 chairs with ottomans. Of course you could use two ottomans and make a bed long enough to sleep on.
Not perfect But so much better then anything else. And I got about 4 hours of dozing. The man in the next cubicle could snore like a champion.
Then a shower. Breakfast and back down to board my final flight to Barcelona. Via the Gold Souk…. because you never know when you might want to buy a few kg of gold as you depart the country.
These Arab nations are insane with their trying t be flasher than the next. Turning desert into beach front resorts with “reclaimed land” although I don’t know how they can reclaim it when it was ever there to start with!
This plane had more normal seats. Still lovely.
More food and a few more movies and there I was. Only about 40 he’s since leaving home.
I do like flying (when I’m comfortable seats). When else is it OK to eat, drink , sleep and binge watch movies without feeling guilty.
As I was flying across the Mediterranean there was a ship that could have been Symphony. Right day and place to see it…..
I could see Mount Serrat sticking up behind the city, and three other ships in port.
So here I was in Barcelona, about to embark on another wonderful adventure.
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