What to do when you are too tired to enjoy a new city?
I often arrive to the start of a new adventure so tired from planning, preparing to leave and arriving that I cant enjoy day one, can even stay awake and often begin the start of a ‘travel cold’.
Perhaps you are one of the lucky few who get off a plane and start to site see, eat the local cuisine and if you a blogger, begin the first of many posts…..
Well I am not that lucky.
Even splurging for a very comfortable ride with sir Richard Branson (seats great, food too strange to eat) I barely made the 1hr tube ride into London without dozing off. I really resent my body when it can not just ‘buck up’ and get out there.
first day: maintenance, tube card, endless search for a sim card, tube travel with 1/2 of the worlds population squeezed into a shoebox, lovely street walks with major monuments/buildings within blocks, annual visit to the crypt under St. Martin in the Field for a bite to eat, more tube squeezes, (is this where the phrase squeeze the tube came from?) and finally to sleep for 10 hrs….
hey what happened to shopping? the famous British tea or at least CAKE? I mu
I must get out there today to make up for all of this..
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Comfort and Flying: who put those words together?
On rare occasions I have been able to use years of saved Frequent Flyer miles to sit in the front of the ‘bus’. And it is better than the back.
But now I have discovered Virgin Atlantic, premium. You may have to fly hundreds of miles to an airport that Virgin but one benefit is only 6 hours in the air if you leave from Boston.
a splurge for premium economy was well worth it, the return will be with the peasants in the back and I shall let you know how that is……..an additional $500+ for a return was NOT worth it.
What a shock when they offered dinner……perhaps I am not cosmopolitan enough, I had to ask what the entrée way and when it was explained to me I could not eat either.
Not a problem, we arrive in 6 hours and no one starved in 6 hours…….and as part of this adventure, can you become fit, loose weight and still have afternoon tea and cake…..
But now I have discovered Virgin Atlantic, premium. You may have to fly hundreds of miles to an airport that Virgin but one benefit is only 6 hours in the air if you leave from Boston.
a splurge for premium economy was well worth it, the return will be with the peasants in the back and I shall let you know how that is……..an additional $500+ for a return was NOT worth it.
What a shock when they offered dinner……perhaps I am not cosmopolitan enough, I had to ask what the entrée way and when it was explained to me I could not eat either.
Not a problem, we arrive in 6 hours and no one starved in 6 hours…….and as part of this adventure, can you become fit, loose weight and still have afternoon tea and cake…..
Travel Warrior On The Road
Travel warrior day one!
I have not flown since December and now I know why. The weather was visually fine but the plane was tossed around …… what I remember a roller coaster feels like the one time I went on that!
I am in the back of the plane so that I can have room for my luggage to find there are LOTS of vacant aisle seats… But Delta wanted $25.00 to book me a unavailable seat and another 25 or 30 to give me one in the front of the plane…..perhaps this is why I drive.
I believe my travel in 2014 will be by car, train or boat. And when I see one of the great deals for business class, I shall take that. Yes I will travel less but I shall not be crippled when I try to squeeze out of the sea. If I had only planned better and faster I would have taken a boat to England…..
Next a Virgin flight. I have heard it is wonderful, but the source travels for business in the front of the plane…. shall let you know.
This is my first time at Boston airport: wow, bright, clean and wide open spaces but they really missed out on stuff to see, do and buy in the departure area…. cant have everything.
And can you tell me why you NEVER sleep the day before a BIg trip!
I have not flown since December and now I know why. The weather was visually fine but the plane was tossed around …… what I remember a roller coaster feels like the one time I went on that!
I am in the back of the plane so that I can have room for my luggage to find there are LOTS of vacant aisle seats… But Delta wanted $25.00 to book me a unavailable seat and another 25 or 30 to give me one in the front of the plane…..perhaps this is why I drive.
I believe my travel in 2014 will be by car, train or boat. And when I see one of the great deals for business class, I shall take that. Yes I will travel less but I shall not be crippled when I try to squeeze out of the sea. If I had only planned better and faster I would have taken a boat to England…..
Next a Virgin flight. I have heard it is wonderful, but the source travels for business in the front of the plane…. shall let you know.
This is my first time at Boston airport: wow, bright, clean and wide open spaces but they really missed out on stuff to see, do and buy in the departure area…. cant have everything.
And can you tell me why you NEVER sleep the day before a BIg trip!
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