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The food on your flight looked first class! I remember the days when the airlines would at least serve you a little sandwich on our flights. Now you get a beverage with no peanuts or pretzels! Glad that you had a couple movies that were uplifting to watch
Ah you see - this is why you need to fly internationally, you get much better food!
What a spread in the lounge! Glad you enjoyed your massage! Great pictures from the flight and the food looks delish! Wish we could get something like that over here!
It really does scare me how different we are with flying on each side of the pond. In the nicest possible way, it does feel as if you guys are about 30 years or so behind us, which is such a shame.
First, thanks for the lounge info. I have a while to figure out my terminal I guess, since we don't fly home from London until August 28th!
Well, that's a Sunday, so we could always come up and see you and spend some time with you guys, if that appeals? Private message me if you're interested - right now, I don't have anything in for that day and it's the Bank Holiday weekend, so we could always make a nice weekend away of it...
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Your meal looked delicious! Virgin Atlantic certainly seems to have most airlines beat on food.
I think they probably do - they certainly sounded like they had BA beat from Mark's description...
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Cool with the window tinting, but I think I could live without the weird lighting.
Isn't it funny? I really liked the lighting - I thought it was fun.
Wow the food looks and sounds delicious! But that lighting makes it look a weird color. The window tinting thing sounds fun. Kind of neat that you can still look out the window, just tinted. I like that idea!
I think in the end, had I left it long enough, it would've gone completely dark, as we saw some others, which were completely dark. However, I wasn't convinced ours was working 100%, as it didn't seem to darken completely - not great for a new plane or a night flight.
Must say the lounge looked very nice and your massage sounded like a great way to head onto a long flight. Glad that the vegetarian meal was good and that salad does sound amazing. Great customer service as they came back with a dessert for you and a delicious one at that.
Must say the lounge looked very nice and your massage sounded like a great way to head onto a long flight. Glad that the vegetarian meal was good and that salad does sound amazing. Great customer service as they came back with a dessert for you and a delicious one at that.
Wednesday 23 September – part five: “you need to put an egg timer on how long you’re spending with people”
A couple of hours before landing, they brought round sandwiches. Mark went for the 30,000ft High Club Wrap: chicken and bacon with sweet chilli mayo. I almost wished I ate meat, as the name of it sounded great.
Sadly, I had to make do with the West Country cheddar and double Gloucester cheese with vine tomatoes one, but that was very nice.
I even spotted another passenger plane at one point!
Not long after that came round, I got up to have a stretch, and use the restroom for the final time, as my back was starting to hurt – not surprising, given I’d been sitting down for six hours straight. After that, I felt a lot better.
Before we knew it, we were getting the warnings to make the final use of the restrooms, and then we were coming into land. A lot of the final route was over water, and it was tough to take photos of the shoreline, as the camera just wouldn’t focus on it, but once we got a bit closer, it was a very different story, and I was happily snapping away…
To me, this was exactly how I imagined New England to look – by the water, lots of greenery and beautiful houses, along with harbours, and lovely boats. It really was picture perfect.
I am assuming this is the Boston skyline
I don’t remember Boston Logan Airport being so close to the water, which is something that was very evident as we came into land. Of course, I know it always was, I guess my memory just didn’t retain that information.
We made our way to the gate, and it seemed to take forever for the fasten seatbelts warning to be turned off, then it felt like it also took forever for them to actually open the aircraft door. We stood there for ages, with no-one moving anywhere. Finally, we were off, and immediately two people stopped as we made our way off the plane. Good grief, what is it with people?
When we got to the immigration hall, they signposted first time visitors, and I asked the very unhelpful guy standing there where to go if you weren’t a first time visitor and had been to the States recently, and he just pointed at the first time visitors line. Ok… We were later to learn from others that there was another line for those of us who aren’t first time visitors, but heck, it probably only took about 15 minutes to reach the front of the line, so that wasn’t terrible.
When we did, we spent ages with the guy, not because there was any issue, but because we ended up putting the world to rights for about five minutes! As we left, one of his colleagues yelled over that he needed to put an egg timer on how long he was spending with people.
Yes, that was the Boston skyline. It is really the only skyline in New England. Providence has a few tall buildings but I don't think any of the other NE cities (except maybe Hartford which to me is not true New England) have any buildings over 15-20 stories and then only one or two. MY guess from the oil tanks to the south is that you were approaching from the north and slightly from the west -maybe circled a little.
I love landing in Logan. While I prefer MHT overall, the view in and out of Logan is lovely. And sometimes you go over water just before touching down.
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Glad you enjoyed your massage! Great pictures from the flight and the food looks delish! Wish we could get something like that over here! 
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