Flights - long, poxy, upgrade aside, I am just not built to sit in a seat that size for 8 hours straight. Further details and pictures on the upgrade will follow.............
In flight service - you still get the same food, same movies and the same flight time in business class as you do in the cheap seats, it's not ALL it's made out to be!!!
Catching up on all those movies you missed - Don't bother joining Xtravision, this is the way forward. Book a long haul flight. Simple as. On my way here I have watched "Drive" - (Overrated - too many bleedin slow motion scenes and I don't care what anyone says, Ryan Gosling is NOT the next De Niro or Pacino based on this or other latest releases (that said, I will watch The Ides Of March on the way back),
50/50 (Decent comedy flick with a darker theme than normal, was over in a flash though) and Moneyball (all in all a good film, Brad Pitt can act only one way, but that one way is often good. Fat lad from Superbad is decent too)
Driving from Jo'burg to Maseru, it is clear that this country is of no interest to the South Africans. When we rented the cars at the airport, there were a few raised eyebrows when we said we were travelling to Lesotho. Even though South Africa surrounds this country the closer you get to it, the worse the roads are. It's as if it's a gentle "hint" that they don't really want you to go there. I guess that's how the darker parts of Laois feel in relation to the rest of Ireland. It's there, we can't ignore it and the other 25 (or 31) counties surround it, but we never really want to go there. At least now there's a motorway through Laois so we no longer have to stop when we are travelling to somewhere nice, ideally beyond Abbeyleix.
To summarise, if you want to catch up on a few DVD's.book Emirates.
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