Schiphol, not a bad place

First flight done with. First good news is that the tickets were valid. So far flyprice has delivered, and gotten me to schiphol. You never know with these internet people. They may just be taking your monies.

Now I just need to wait here for 5 hours before the flight to Japan leaves. Hey, atleast I just got half an hour of internet for 6 euro. So that’s… good. There is slight amusement to be had from the person doing announcements here. She sounds almost exactly like GLaDOS.

The first flight was short and the captain even informed us he was not just on schedule, we came in early. Thank fuck for that, wouldn’t want to be late for my 5 hour session of waiting for the next flight!

I thought the biggest problem about the first flight was gonna be the fat beer-chugging man shaped like a beach ball that sat next to me, but as it turned out he was very courteous and never strayed into my personal bubble where I could enjoy mineral water and Entourage. He didn’t even smell of fat people.

The problem came from behind. Three dutch people in a screaming conversation, possibly about how fucking great their voices were, the one right behind me being the worst one, of course. If you haven’t heard it before, the conversation of three middle aged dutch assholes sounds a lot like that of a room full of northern swedes, drunk off their tits. (i.e the natural state of the northern swede). There’s some swedish and the rest is just awful slurring and the sounds of rhinos dying.

I was surprised to learn I got free shit on the plane though. sure, it was only small sammiches and a free drink, but still! I’ve been on short flights many times before and gotten nothing but a back ache.

I’m gonna enjoy the rest of my breakfast now (Red Bull and Lay’s crisps) and see if anyone is online on MSN.

~Medicine makes people evil

Tickets have been ordered and confirmed for the trip.

the logo looks nice

I’ll be leaving for Japan on the 18th of September and the return trip to Sweden, if all goes well and I don’t die on my endeavour, will be on the 11th of October.

I’ll be lifting off from Copenhagen and landing in Amsterdam on my way there, “getting to” spend more than a little time getting to know the (hopefully) wonderful Schiphol airport. A grand total of 18 hours of travel. I just wonder how much of it I’ll be able to sleep away.

On my way back, I shall be taking in the sights of Charles de Gaulle airport. It can’t be that bad, right? Charles was a pretty nifty guy, after all.

And in Japan I’ll be landing on Narita. So I guess Tokyo will be my first and last stop in Japan.

For the long hauls I’ll be flying with Japan Airlines, that for some reason pays about one third of the taxes that Virgin does, and because of that was the cheaper option. It strikes me as really odd. I wonder if it’s because Japan subsidizes some taxes for international flights from Japanese airlines?

All that’s left is to wait.