December 06, 2004
Tarnished silver bird
As I noted, I flew on Friday night from BOS to LHR. The trip was probably the most uncomfortable I've done across the pond. First we got away 90 minutes late, because of a faulty spoiler indicator that had to be replaced. Then the seats proved to be too short in the leg, and the placement of the IFE [in-flight entertainment] equipment meant that even though the nominal pitch was reasonable it was imposible to get comfortable. And then the meal service was slow, and things were pretty bumpy from about 20W to the Irish coast. Bottom line: I got less than an hour's sleep. Not surprisingly I slept like I log on Saturday night - from about 6pm to 8am!
I'm posting this from the Sun office at 55 King William Street in the City of London, a few yards from The Monument (see right).
Posted by geoff2 at December 6, 2004 05:23 AMHi Geoff,
Sorry to hear you had an uncomfortable flight. Maybe you want to follow my recipe the next time: have dinner at the airport and hunker down right away to get some sleep. And to speed the adjustment to the new time zone, wear sun glasses in the morning till about mid day. And then try to get as much sun light as you can in the afternoon.(I follow this recipe everytime across the pond, read it from some researcher at Harvard, and it seems to work for me).
I envy you being in one of my favorite cities, London.
Greetings,
Werner
Posted by: Werner Bahlke at December 6, 2004 01:51 PMBeauty was only skin deep huh? So many things in life turn out that way. Sorry you had an uncomfortable flight, hopefully you'll fly an ugly but comfortable plane back ;)
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at December 6, 2004 07:19 PM