High Flyers

Prepared with books, magazines and an ipod we boarded our flight to Frankfurt via Hong Kong almost two days ago. We then ignored all the carefully chosen provisions we had brought with us and instead spent our time watching movies and playing Bejewelled. It is pretty cool to be able to play video games in the air! The first flight was fun despite the cramped conditions of economy – there really is a reason it is referred to as cattle class! Being paraded past the nicer, roomier business class section before being seated felt a bit like a punishment. However we chatted, enjoyed the very forthcoming supply of drinks (by the way, don’t let curiosity get you, Campari tastes like baboon butt!) and after 9 hours we were in Hong Kong. Good grief! Leaving chilly Sydney winter and stepping out into a humid, 30 degree night was a heavy, sweaty shock to the system. The air conditioning in the building was virtually non existent and we had no Hong Kong dollars. Finally we found a shop that accepted British Pounds and bought overpriced cold drinks to wait out the two hours to our next flight. The 12 hour flight from Hong Kong to Frankfurt was gratefully shorter than expected thanks to a good tail wind. The air conditioning was malfunctioning in the plane and it was a big metal sweatbox hurtling us through the sky! By this time the novelty was truly wearing off and we were overjoyed to see the twinkling lights of Frankfurt below us in the early hours of the morning. It was absolutely surreal to see all the hopes and saving and planning come to fruition. We are here, on the other side of the world, on our honeymoon! There were even a few tears shed out of exhausted happiness (no prizes for guessing who!) and a feeling like we have really achieved something.