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bktheirregular) wrote2010-08-16 10:00 am
bktheirregular) wrote2010-08-16 10:00 am
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Back in New York
The trip in from Athens was ... a bit adventurous. Not as bad as the time the plane started dumping fuel into the Aegean so that they wouldn't pancake it by landing on a suspect landing gear, of course, but still, longer than I would have liked.
Boarded on time, pulled away from the gate, then had to wait an hour and a half to get takeoff clearance through Brussels. (That was also the only stretch of time where I got any sleep.) Flight took ten hours and was uneventful once we got airborne, but once we landed and reached the exit taxiway, we stopped.
And waited.
And waited.
Turns out, the gate we were supposed to go to was still occupied, and we had to wait for the gate to be cleared before we could de-plane.
That took an hour.
Yep, that adds up to over twelve hours in the same seat, with about one hour of sleep.
Anyhoo. Back home safe, if somewhat jet-lagged. Anyone going to be in and around The City between now and Friday-a-week?
Boarded on time, pulled away from the gate, then had to wait an hour and a half to get takeoff clearance through Brussels. (That was also the only stretch of time where I got any sleep.) Flight took ten hours and was uneventful once we got airborne, but once we landed and reached the exit taxiway, we stopped.
And waited.
And waited.
Turns out, the gate we were supposed to go to was still occupied, and we had to wait for the gate to be cleared before we could de-plane.
That took an hour.
Yep, that adds up to over twelve hours in the same seat, with about one hour of sleep.
Anyhoo. Back home safe, if somewhat jet-lagged. Anyone going to be in and around The City between now and Friday-a-week?
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...For a second there I thought you were leaving tomorrow.
I'll e-mail you more.