#9:
After another 11 hours flying, we have our
2-hour stop at Bangkok to clean and re-fuel the plane. Strangely to me, it is
not from 3 to 5 in the morning, but in the afternoon! Now I’m completely
confused. Why I’d thought it would be the middle of the night, I have no idea;
must be related to Justin Timberlake’s disease as well. But this is when I
start understanding something I had been wondering about since the beginning:
if we were leaving London at 10 something pm and landing in Australia at 6 am
the next morning, where would the jet lag come from? I would just sleep all the
way through my journey and wake up fresh as a rose in Sydney. Now it hits me:
it’s not a one-night flight, it’s one night plus one day, and not even I am
capable of sleeping for so many hours. By now I’ve slept all that I needed, and
there are still 9 hours to go till Sydney... I start wondering if it is sane to
do such a long trip for less than a 6 months stay.
Anyway, can I say I’ve been to Bangkok even if
I haven’t left the airport? I don’t care, I’ll say it anyway: I’ve been to
Bangkok, and I have a photo to prove it:
[please disregard the airport ceiling above the exotic monument] I've even had the privilege to come into close
contact with some of the local fauna: a bug at the airport and some birds that I’ve
seen from the plane. Mostly storks and egrets, but I’m sure they were from some rare
local subspecies.
