30 March 2019
The 3 next worst photos
Wandering around Hong Kong airport after flying there on a Virgin A330
Terrible photos are my thing. So heres 3 more! I now take terrible photos in groups of 3 to assure that symmetry is never achieved.
My flight from Melbourne to Hong Kong on a Virgin Airbus A330 was uneventful. It was completely full, but there seemed to be no one near me dying, soiling themselves, gargling mucus or trying to set a new loudest scream record.
The flight was a bit early, but still nearly 9 hours. To pass the time I watched 'The Right Stuff' which features a lot of test pilots dying in spectacular plane crashes. It also goes for 3.5 hours, which is mainly why I chose it.
Virgin managed to serve 2 full hot meals on the flight, with 3 choices for each meal, they also gave a full regular screw the lid on and off again bottle of water, environmental terrorism!
The only funny thing I saw happen was funny the first time and dumb the next, a girl lifting her suitcase above her head to put it in the locker dropped it on the head of the guy sitting in the aisle, twice. Now that I think about this, it is a dangerous setup. The lockers in the middle are directly above the heads of people in rows d and g, those bags will not fall in the aisle, they will fall on your neck / head.
The only other thing of note was when it was time to get off, a woman 2 rows in front of me was refusing to go, despite her husband / boyfriend / captor insisting loudly that she should. Her reason? She wanted to watch the end of her movie, 'it only has ten minutes to go!'.
I have over 5 hours to kill in Hong Kong airport, about 10km of steps to get to reach my still never missed daily goal of 25,000 steps, and a shower waiting for me in the lounge. I am flying to Seoul on Hong Kong Airlines, who I have not flown with before, they have 2 lounges in the airport with a made to order noodle bar and made to order pizza. Maybe after my two hot meals on the plane I shall have both?
Maybe I will just post 3 boring photos of Hong Kong airport?
That is not my plane. It is a Qantas jet, but I took the photo because of those mountains, calling me, shrouded in cloud currently. I will be back in 2 weeks time to climb those mountains.
I like Hong Kong airport. You really have to walk a very long way. That suits me fine. I walked to all corners of the main terminal... and then....
My flight is leaving from the satellite terminal, which has blue lighting. It is also large and I can do some more walking, with my heavy backpack. Then I can have a shower. Walking and showering, holiday highlights! I sure cant do that at home.