I think it was Chairman Mao that once said a journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step. Or something like that...
Today is going to be somewhat more than that, but I've taken more than a couple of steps already. Probably close to 6000 miles if you include the detour to the airport where I change planes.
Taxi was booked for 0700. It turned up early so I dragged the bags downstairs and headed for the airport. Had to join the back of a massive queue of Japs to check-in. That took more than half an hour. My attempts to gain favourable treatment and skip the queue sadly failed, at least I tried! However in retrospect I made the mistake of asking and being too polite. Should have just walked through the fast track and claimed to be Silver Executive Club! Once you get to the special handling bit they rarely check I suspect. Got stuck behind a flock of more Japs (is that the expression?) trying to get upstairs. Decided it would be sensible to get through security before they got there and caused their normal chaos. They were blocking corridors all over the place. Told the first member of staff at the security checkpoint that 3000 Japs were incoming. "Oh No!" the poor girl shrieked. I'd made her day.
Made it through security reasonably quickly, took a while to reassemble myself. Ensure that the netbook remained with me. I'll be so busy keeping an eye on it for the next few airports that I'll make some other dumb mistake soon. I tried to walk through the scanner with my bag after putting the netbook on the tray! I can only think of one thing at a time nowadays. Or maybe it was early...
Now drinking Costa coffee. There may be a bigger post from a major airport down in England. I have some time to kill down there, so there may be more ramblings. It's going to be long day, so I need my amusements to kill time. The excitement however is building.
Of course my plane shall probably be 50% Japanese. Should be fun. They're quite entertaining. They improve with altitude.
Cheers,
Stu B
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