Who would have thought that traveling in a full coach cabin with 270 of your nearest and dearest most recent friends, surrounded by children under four for 14 hours could be such fun. Well, it wasn’t, in part because the children cried (moaned might be a better way to put it) for much of the trip. However, with the help of ear plugs it was fine. The children were just reacting to being jammed into a small space the same way everyone else was.
There were several families consisting of a young mother, three young children and grandmother, all trying to keep it together. The older children must have been in school because it was only the little ones on the flight – and lots.
Continental has you shut the shades after take off (8:30 p.m.) so that as you over Northern Europe four hours after take off you can continue to sleep or at least relax. It works well and keeps everyone a little more calm. Great on demand movie selection and the Kindle made the time pass reasonably rapidly.
We arrived about 45 minutes early into Delhi and its new airport. This one is a modern, top quality airport, which contrasts sharply with the old airport that was every developing world and inadequate.
Whatever the issues about flying over, we cannot be heard to complain. We each got 4-5 hours of sleep and traveled 7500 miles in just a few hours.
Our hotel is fully adequate for our purposes, a business hotel run by a Dubai company with great Indian cuisine. We enjoy the Indian cuisine any chance we get, skipping over the English, Continental and Chinese offerings. We are very popular with the Indian chefs who oversee the breakfast buffet because we inquire about the Indian foods. They are happy to help us make choices amongst the delicious Indian options.
A few of Jerry’s first day photos are up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfon24/sets/72157627657291275/.
Giules’s photos can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/33339594@N06/sets/72157627660248443/
The good news is that we are posting a smaller number of photos each than we did on the last trip.
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