Sunday, October 18, 2009

Departure towards China

The journey begun with a taxi ride to the airport, I managed to convince the gallician driver that i was really late, and i was, this resulted in a crazy driving reaching for every red light in town.
But it helped, because although i was the last to board, i didn't miss the flight.

The flight to Frankfurt was semi full, and i choose an empty space in the aisle with an empty space separating me from the next person, i like to have space in airplanes..
But my effort was in vain, a few minutes after take off, my neighbor an Indian young man, moves closer to me.
He was clearly nervous, holding his hands together in front of his face, almost like in a prayer.
He started the conversation with the excuse that that would keep him calm through the flight. he talked most of the time, but sometimes i couldn't hear him because of the noise from the engines, but i continued nodding my head like if I did.
He is a representative of Gucci watches in India, Imram was his name and in the end of the flight gave my his business card, in case i decide one day to go and visit mombai.

The next flight to Beijing was normal, was operated by air china and lasted 9 hours, my neighbor this time was a German man, but we only talked about the casual bumps due to the confined space, and the performance of the pilot during the landing. The dinner was chicken and the breakfast was pork. The time during the flight was spent trying to sleep in order to trick the jet-lag, but didn't managed.
Arrived at 6am local time, and in front of me another 6 hours before my next flight to hefei.

Tired and sleepy i spent most of the time from lounge to lounge, listening to music, and seeing the amazing performance of the Chinese officials. They look so proud with those uniforms. Here no matter which job you do you get an uniform.

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