Well there we were again - back at the airport in Darwin. This time it was to make the triennial trip to Freiberg, Germany for the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference, #6 in the series and I only missed #1 so far.
The trip began with ethe usual graggy flight on Jetstar, that awful low -cost subsidiary that will one day be all QANTAS has if the pesent CEO there has his way. Talk about dumbing down... The cabin crew have such average english that it is hard to grasp what they are on aboouot most of the time. Food and drink (even water) cost extra and the seats are very small and close together. Also you cannot interline bagage unless you pay extra and then only onto a QANTAS flight. Not a real airline in the words of the staff themselves
Still it is only 4.5 hours to the sanity of Singapore Changi airport. This time I was transerring to Lufhansa and a flight to Munich with, again, a first class upgrade after all those points.
the aircraft was an Airbus 340-300 with only 8 seats in First ansd we were only 6 passengers so it was very nice indeed. Greta service, good food and excellent wints; but the seat was not as good as in the B-747 of JUly's flight where we got two seats each! Still I got a good sleep and I am now sittimg in Munich waiting for 5 hours to catch the next flight to Dresden. Then a train to Freiberg and hope to be in the hotel Am Obermarkt (my usual haunt in Freiberg) by 1700 to go to the reception and registration for the meeting at 1800.
Another year for the travelling and ageing mining and environment adviser
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