So as we start week 5, I have not
improved in health! Peter is not much better and I’m feeling rather let down by
the fact I have not seen as much of Berlin and now Munich as I would have liked
to. What I did see was making me think, we should come back in spring and check
out the place. I do love the trees
without their leaves and the branches dance in the breeze. Good grief sounds
like an ad for a travel show.
The trip from Berlin to Munich was via Easy
Jet. I have watched those airline shows
on TV and I’m sure Easy Jet is one of the ones on the show dealing with delayed
and cancelled flights and troublesome customers. Out trip on Easy Jet
was like travelling JetStar in Oz but the cabin staff were far nicer. The seats are so close together my knees were
touching the seat in front. Again, the
visibility was dreadful, with the wonderful mixture of smog and low cloud/fog,
not helping me at all. No aerial photos
again! There is starting to become a
pattern.
My opinion of EasyJet has risen
dramatically. The flight we took from
Berlin to Munich with EasyJet was pleasant and even landed 30 mins early. Not the luxury we have become accustomed to on
the other flights for this trip, but nothing to complain about. As there was no overhead storage where we were
sitting, the cabin staff suggested we move further back on the plane. We got a whole row to ourselves.
Denise and I have been suffering with colds
for a week now and hoping this goes away soon. It’s not pleasant having a cold on holidays.
In Munich I had a look round with Margot and
Shaun and saw a large castle while Denise tried to shake off her cold.
After our flight from Munich to London my
rating of Lufthansa has plummeted to now being below EasyJet. Even Qantas domestic beats this poor excuse
for business class. I know this was only
a two hour flight BUT. Many reasons for
the rating, but the main one was that the seats were the same as cattle class,
with the only difference being that the middle seat was left free in business. There was no locker space left for our carry
on bags when we got on so we dumped our bags on the spare seat. Nobody questioned our choice. The “meal” we got on the flight was average at
best - Cheese and a slice of meat with a small bowl of yogurt (I think). Even Australian domestic flights offer better
inflight meals. To top all that off
there was no inflight entertainment.
I eventually worked out the difference with
the flight. We had a sign on the
bulkhead stating Lufthansa Business Class, oh, and our bags had priority tags
on them, but that didn’t really matter as it took us so long to get through customs.
Would I fly Lufthansa again? Not unless I had no other choice or it was
considerably cheaper than other flights.
I’m unsure about others, but during the
flight I got a little concerned when I looked out the window and saw another
plane below us flying in the opposite direction. My concern was that it looked a little too close
and I could even read it’s signage. I
have seen planes off in the distance before when flying, including this flight,
but never that close. I must say I was
impressed with the speed we passed each other.
For this trip I took the window seat, but it
was cloudy most of the way. Coming in to
the UK I was surprised to see wind turbines in the sea. There were quite a few and some appeared to be
a fair way off the coast. We circled
somewhere over England (I assume) for over 15mins waiting our turn to land at
Heathrow. On our approach through gaps
in the clouds I got to see London so I have ticked that off my list. Peter is not a very good
tourist, so hopefully he will improve. Don’t
hold your breath as you will expire. My greatest
problem travelling with him, is he doesn’t like to stop for me to take photos
but after being clobbered for the 400th time he gets the idea it is
time to stop. I took photos of ducks and
then I had to listen to this(his) big speech about why take photos of Ducks. Sometimes he just needs to be quite.
I am sure once we landed and finished
slowing down the pilot got lost as first we went one way then back another way
and then we sat on the tarmac for 5mins. Finally an announcement said we were waiting
for our position to free up.
We went to the priority line to see if we
could get through the customs queue, but alas, were told that Lufthansa doesn’t
provide that service. I think I should
leave Lufthansa alone now as next up will be Swiss Air at the end of April.
We got a phone and data SIM for each phone
and headed for the Underground. The
first and last parts of the journey was above ground, so Underground is false
advertising. Unfortunately, there was no
phone coverage on the actual underground bits so I couldn’t follow on Google
Maps, but I could at least understand the announcements and I actually
recognised many of the station names. He had to login but I’ll let him work that
out!!
Our first place of abode was with friends we
knew from Tanzania. Lunch was a surprise
BBQ with more friends from Tanzania, and then in the evening we met another
friend from Tanzania. It was a reunion
of sorts.
The next day we headed down to Crawley to
stay with other friends from Tanzania who looked after us for the weekend.
The weekend was a highlight just
catching up with our friends. Being girls,
we went out and had lunch then found a fabric shop that called us in and told
us to buy material. Lucky for me I
showed restraint which is totally unusual when it comes to material and I came
out with a small material square that could be put into my bag.
My highlight for the weekend was the EPL
game between Chelsea and Chrystal Palace.
My seat was right behind the goal and to my right was the opposition
spectators. Between us was about 6 seats
with netting over them and security on each side. It was a good game, but of most interest to
me was the crowd and their chants, some of which I could understand. Seeing the open animosity between both sets
of fans was quite interesting as they would goad the opposition fans and abuse
them and security did nothing. Some of
the language was quite colourful.
We had a day down at Brighton in the sun and
another day we went to Arundel Castle, but it was close so instead we went for
a walk in the rain. Brighton was a lovely day, walking
on the beach with small pebbles instead of sand, how weird. Arundel Castle being closed for the day meant
we had to fill in the day and of course that was by going for a walk. The castle was quite an imposing place. The first walk was curtailed when the rain
got heavier, certainly wasn’t a drizzle, and the
mud got deeper. Instead we walked a few kms
to a pub for lunch. The castle was huge
and was located on a hill. Now I can
tick castles off my list. Not for long!! We were
wet, by the time we climbed into the car again.
Next we head off to Cornwall, so need to
book a car.
Thanks My Darlings for reading
Big hugs All round.
Me and that Boy
xx
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