Sunday, May 30, 2010

It’s complicated

Not really.  Anyone can do it.  It just takes a little forward planning and time to compose blog posts and schedule them so Blogger will publish them when you know you’re going to be just too busy to blog as often as you’d like.   

So this morning, while you were looking at photos of my new selvedge bag sitting prettily on a table in my garden, my bag and I (along with Boak) were actually here, more than 10,000 km away, on a plane bound for Dubai.IMG_4101  (and how neat is this view from a camera mounted on the tail!)

After an initial complication when we were told we couldn’t  use a piece of medical equipment on the flight, we settled down to enjoy dinner, a movie,  and a few hours’ sleep before touching down in bright sunshine at 5.30am.IMG_4110

IMG_4105 IMG_4104  It was nearly 35 degrees outside  by re-embarkation time at 9.30am, and a somewhat complicated transfer of several hundred passengers, by a fleet of buses, from terminal to plane,  gave us a chance to experience a Dubai ‘scorcher’. It was a 15 minute journey to our plane – right out in the middle of an expanse of tarmac, and we boarded the old fashioned way – up the stairs.   IMG_4111 The plane’s air conditioning began to struggle and the temperature rose in the cabin as we waited while airline staff dealt with the extra complication of two checked-in passengers apparently vanishing somewhere in the terminal and not making the flight.  Their bags had to be found and taken off the plane before we could get going on the next leg of our journey.  I needed this!IMG_4114By contrast, Rome was wet and drizzly and provided us with our final little complication – one of our suitcases arrived on the baggage carousel with its extendable handle snapped clean off by a baggage handler with a little more testosterone than sense. 

Finding a replacement case was the first job on our list after checking into our favourite little hotel,and gave us a chance to get out and stretch our legs and see beautiful Rome.  I’m glad to say this wasn’t a complicated exercise  and now all is well.

The sun even came out by late afternoon, making the evening passeggiata a delight.

[What in-flight movie did I choose?  ”It’s Complicated”, with Meryl Streep and Alex Baldwin – of course!]

3 comments:

  1. Di, how exciting, not the heat in Dubai though. The drizzle in Rome would have been lovely after that. The photo of the beautiful pink plant in Dubai was amazing. Hope all has started to settle for you and you start having a wonderful time.
    hugs Deb

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  2. Oh! That's the same movie I watched on my recent flight from Sydney to San Francisco! The airlines must subscribe to the same video service, ha, ha. So sorry about the broken piece of luggage, but still happy to know you've arrived intact and ready to explore. Keep us posted, please!

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  3. Hey so nice and good information. It just takes a little forward planning and time to compose blog posts and schedule them so Blogger will publish them when you know you’re going to be just too busy to blog as often as you’d like.

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