After a night dreaming about aliens and ringing necklaces the day of my trip finally arrived.
The plan: Sleep really late so I would wake up really late. The actually situation – my phone rang at 10! I woke up grumpy: so a normal morning situation really. I started my errands, running here and there, answering sms’s and emails. Afternoon comes and we are off to the airport. This is my first flight in a while in which I’m travelling with someone else.
We get past the marsa traffic and to the airport. I go to the air malta desk to ask about my air miles. They were as helpful as a nostril on my elbow. In the past 6 months I’ve been on over 15 air Malta flights they simply hold a ridiculous monopoly on destinations but Im not here to moan about air malta today. We checked-in and I was overjoyed that I had managed to pack a suitcase into another one and two people’s clothes into one suitcase and still weigh in at 20kgs! Class!
At the airport we had some overpriced drinks and waited for boarding. YAY, no one was next to us on the plane. – during the flight I got thinking about why my father used to want to sit above the wings of the plane…. Honestly if it crashes I doubt its going to make a difference.
On a less serious note but still one of some concern my boyfriend seems to have ‘visually picked up’ a blonde 5 year old sitting across our aisle. Impressed? Me hardly! For dinner we are served a lovely meatball sort of object surrounded by veg and shredded potatoes…. we discussed dinner immediately after poking at the food. On landing the flight ended off with a classic comment from a passenger talking to her partner:’ look hunny its raining – its wet everywhere!’ my thought – yes because it rains in patches :/
The rest of our evening was pretty easy. Gatwick express to Victoria station a couple of stations on the district line and then onto the picadilly line straight to terminal 4. We used the tunnel in terminal 4 directly to the hilton hotel. The passage was pretty interesting – motivational poster telling you how many minutes left you had to walk down the 6 minute long passage; we did not miss out on a photo opportunity at each sign. Hotel was pretty cool with really nice staff.
