The sound of the flaps extending as we taxi out towards the runway reverberates throughout the aircraft, looking around many people are already watching movies now that the safety video (repeated 4 times in different languages) is over. As we reach the runway it only takes 30 seconds for the pilots to turn the plane into the wind and then with engines roaring, and babies screaming, we begin to accelerate down the runway, looking out the window buildings flash by and then disappear from view as the plane lifts off from the ground and I know the journey has really begun.
About an hour after takeoff, with the flight only 3/4 full, many of the other passengers have found empty seats and fallen asleep. However to get into the Parisian timezone I set my phone to Parisian time and calculated I have to stay awake another 13 hours or so, during the flight to Bangkok I did this by watching Kickass 2 (pretty good), End of the World (super predictable, just like Shaun of the Dead) and Getaway (a car movie, of course).
There was quite a lot of turbulence on the first flight and we arrived into Bangkok 20 minutes late, leaving me only 30 minutes to get to my next flight. Easier said than done as Bangkok airport is like a 3 dimensional maze of escalators, lifts and staircases that only go to certain levels. I made my flight however and was finally able to sleep after the first few hours of my flight to Bangkok to Vienna, luckily I got a good few hours in before a toddler a few rows in front chucked an hour long tantrum that kept everyone covering their ears to escape her bloodcurdling scream.
After an hour long stopover in Vienna airport, they have super cool couches in the waiting area that are molded to be both seats and beds, I was off to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to finally set foot in Europe... To be continued
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