After a shaky start I have finally taken to the skies!
Everything went to plan until I was half way down the hill to the railway station and realised I had left my passport in the scanner. Back half way down the hill the second time and feeling a tad breathless, I was met by passengers coming back up telling me that the 13:08 had been cancelled. Doh now what!? Back home I began phoning some of my friends but they were not available so I popped round to my neighbour. Rita was immediately obliging and even offered to take me to Heathrow but we decided on the Airline bus and she dropped me at Gloucester Green. Thanks so much Rita for stepping in at short notice.
I was a little worried that i might be too late for the flight as we sat in frustratingly slow traffic jams getting out of Oxford but my fears were unfounded. I arrived at Terminal 3 in plenty of time and everything from then on with China Airlines was smooth sailing… sorry – flying!
From then on positive thinking took over. Even, would you believe, when I found my seat was right next to a couple with a 10 month old baby!! Why is everything against me on this trip?? Actually Nicole and Simon were a lovely couple and we chatted happily about travels in New Zealand, and of course babies. Archer is a delightful little boy and so happy… Let’s hope I can say the same by the end of the flight…. some 9 hours and 45 minutes. Dinner is being served and I have been offered 3 spare seats near the window giving my friends more room to spread out to feed Archer. I must say so far I am very impressed with China Airlines!
I need to transfer some pics from iPhone … sorry not enough wifi time in airport, just pasting in some notes to get stuff on the blog – pics later!