Somewhere over India. We really seem to have lucked up on our flights coming back. We are currently on the plane between London and Singapore and the plane is almost empty. As soon as we reached altitude, Virginia and I each grabbed a four seat section and settled in. After dinner, which was surprisingly good for airplane food, we went to sleep and slept for five or six hours. Virginia spoke to the crew and they told her that this particular flight is fairly new and rarely crowded. Sadly, by next year, we feel sure it will either be cancelled or be much more crowded.
While we are not sure, the staff in London told us that the flight from Singapore to Sydney is not crowded either!
We currently have about three hours and three-quarters before we arrive in Singapore where we will be staying in the Transit Hotel overnight. For those of you unfamiliar with the Transit Hotel, it is one of the great travel ideas. We have about a fourteen hour delay before continuing on to Sydney, so, instead of clearing customs and finding a hotel in the city with all the difficulties that entails or, alternatively, sitting around the airport, we never actually "land" in Singapore. We remain in transit and our bags (except for what we are carrying) go on to Sydney while we check into a hotel in this "no-man's-land". Singapore has had the good sense to provide these hotels in the transit area. Because people are not usually there for long, the hotel rents rooms in six hour blocks which can be extended by one hour blocks. We will have two blocks of six hours, but were we to need it for only nine hours, we could have one block of six hours plus three blacks of one hour each. Cost is about the same as a hotel anywhere these days--about one hundred Singapore dollars per six hour block.
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