Singapore, here we come..

We left our heroes relaxing in the lounge at Heathrow.  Having been told our boarding time was 10:25 we watched the screens to see at 10:10 that they said "boarding now".  Being good passengers who do what we are told, we got our stuff together and made our way to gate 1.
No sooner had we left the lounge than the tannoy announced "final call for flight SQ371 to Singapore".  Suddenly we were late and, as you might have guessed, Gate1 was as far away from the lounge as could possibly be!  We rushed to the gate and when we got there the screens were flashing "closing".  We handed our tickets to the man behind the counter and asked why it was closing 10 minutes early.  Apparently that announcement is for the steerage passengers - it doesn't apply to business class!  Well thanks for letting us know, we are new to this privileged world!

Anyway we were soon on board and luxuriating in our large seats.  Plenty of leg room and the storage space in front fitted my new Thinktank rucksack perfectly,  another reason why I love their gear. I was impressed to see that they had even gone to the trouble of putting Christmas decorations up on the plane. Take-off was pretty uneventful and even Maria seemed pretty unstressed by it once we had got over the initial climbing. 

Its Christmas!

Then came the food:  Satay as an appetiser, pama ham with melon for starters,  then steak as a main course. then on to chocolate cheesecake for desert and then for those who were feeling a bit peckish cheese and biscuits.  It even got to the stage where I refused food!

A low calore snackette

Maria had opted for the vegetarian option which looked really good, not a vegetable lasagne in sight.  All the time we were plied with lots of drink.  Maria tells me the wine was really good, to me it just tasted like week vinnegary beer but apparently that is a good thing.  It was really impressive that all the cabin crew (and there did seem to be a lot of them) knew our names and nothing was too much trouble.

More Champers

After dinner I watched the latest Harry Potter and then I noticed it is apparently "slumber time", most people seemed to try to get some sleep.    Once the staff had performed some origami manoeuvres on your seat it turned in to a fold-flat bed. Trouble is to us it was 3 in the afternoon and after much tossing and turning sleep proved somewhat elusive.

The airline gives you some lovely slippers to keep your feet toasty. The trouble is, that if you fidget too much you end up moving the sheet a bit and that uncovers a velcro strip.  The slippers are made of a special velcro attracting material and Its not long before your feet discover a magnetic attraction to this strip and they are glued to the seat!. You try to pull that foot away and the other sticks in a seemingly never ending game.  I must point out that no one else seemed to suffer from this problem - just us two fidget-arses.
Over the Bay of Bengal, we hit some pretty bad turbulence.  Maria,  the nervous flyer,  coped with it admirably - just an occasional nervous grimace.  I on the other hand decided that pink was no longer the fashionable colour for faces and mine would look much better in a nice shade of green!

So now it gets complicated,  it's 5 in the morning Singapore time but my body was still set to 9pm. So now, its time for breakfast.  Maria gets a lovely vegetarian breakfast,  whilst I get to stare at mine just able to manage a cross ant and a cup of tea.  The lovely Singapore airline ladies offered me an alternative breakfast, but I was just far to green around the gills to face food.....first time for everything!