Day 1. Singapore
I have previously complained that travel is a mix of rushing and waiting. It's very time inefficient, and I suspect this contributes to it being so tiring, even when you don't seem to have done much. We were up a bit after six this morning to go to the airport early; our flight was just after 10, but the recommendations these days are to arrive three hours before your flight. That means lots of things at the airport aren't open. But some shops were, and I bought a new packable waterproof jacket, which was useful as my last one disintegrated earlier this year. Then we sat around the lounge and waited for our flight. It's about six and a half hours to Singapore. That passed in a mix of movies, reading, dozing and eating. Eating quite a bit, mostly from boredom, as we'd not done anything. This time we'd pre-selected our meals on the Singapore Airlines website. That allows a greater choice but actuallty gave little information about the dishes and my first meal was...