Merde, it happened again...

Why me? On aisle seat of two from Singapore to Munich - in window seat sat one sentagenarian from Sarajevo (now living in Adelaide) who was travelling all the way from Adelaide to Sarajevo with no book, no crossword puzzles, just the intention that the person in the next seat would be his in-flight entertainment. He was very keen to talk but I was really tired after the day in Singapore and took a sleeping pill as soon as we boarded - was out like a light and didn't even hear the meal cart come around. In the morning, he said to me in admiring tones - 'You sleep like baby - is very good'!

Uneventful changes in Munich and Paris though you have to walk huge distances now the airports are so big. Must make air travel increasingly difficult for those with mobility problems. At Munich, we got on a bus which took us from the terminal to the plane - we were going so long, you wondered if you were actually driving to Paris! Very different kind of passengers at Munich - I think I was the only woman on the plane amongst all the impeccably dressed businessmen in their natty suits and designer rimless glasses reading newspapers. In the departure lounge, I sat opposite a man in a lilac shirt with lilac socks and lilac laces in his highly-polished brown brogues - not a sight you'd often see in Wellington! Paris airport is now so big that you take a subway between terminals.

I was first off the plane in Bristol and skipped through Immigration, even before the sniffer dog had woken up. Still, as it turns out, I might as well not have bothered as Air France had yet again lost my luggage - this time at least, unlike the last, they knew where it was. Well, Brussels and Bristol are pretty similar, easy to see how they could make such a mistake. They thought it would arrive that day, in which case it would be delivered to me in Bath but it was really no problem if it had to come to South Wales later in the week.... Then had a fight to get back the £2 I'd paid for a luggage trolley for which I then had no use - yes, it is only £2 but it's the principle!

After that, I needed to blow off steam, so I decided to walk to the rental car place rather than phone to be picked up. Got lots of odd looks as I stomped away from the terminal - you don't actually see many people walking to and from the airport!