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Thursday, May 08, 2008

London Adventure

Many of you may know, but my company has sent me to London to help with some business-y things. I promised that I'd make regular updates here about my journey and adventures (well except for the boring business-y bits)

SO! Day one, I've been here for less than 12 hrs so far but I'm pretty close to being ready for bed. I left Newark last night on Silverjet Airlines. You've probably never heard of them before, they only fly to Newark, Dubai and London-Luton. It's a business class only airline and in comparison to the other "business class" offerings, it was much more affordable. This naturally made me nervous but figured I'd give it a shot.

My overall review was really great. That they make free booze plentiful helps (read: Doebette enjoyed some champagne on the flight, and even some before the flight!), that they have a nice waiting lounge with snacks, reading materials, music and they just take your bags away so you don't have to deal with them- these are all good signs. The plane is all biz class so the seats are spacious, recline fully and even have nice little coat hangers on the seat in front of you.

I started to panic when I noticed no TV's for inflight entertainment, but then sure enough one of the PLENTIFUL flight attendants came by with my 'personal entertainment suite'. They were small portable machines with great headphones full of movie, tv and music selections!

I actually got some sleep, got to see a movie I wanted, and the food was actually pretty good!

Go Silver Jet!

After the LONG way from Luton Airport (described to me by a local as "The last place God made unfortunately") I arrived at my flat. All is just fine in the flat...not luxury digs, but plentiful space, internet, an ok cable selection and great location. Well, except for the construction.

This is the view from my flat's sitting room looking left. The construction was NOISY today!! You'll also notice a partitioned playground right next to the construction...that's for the primary school right next to the building. ALSO- noisy today.

By and large the place is fine, it'll make a nice home away from home til the assignment is all wrapped up.

Thanks for the well wishes and happy thoughts sent my way. I'm not sure how much longer I can stay awake tonight...I'm not as young as I was when I used to do the overnight flights all the time, but I'll keep posting!!

posted at 2:26 PM

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