Comforts of home
mr.sumo snr.
to mention drive your own car and crash out in your own properly sprung
bed - as opposed to curious British beds that always have this 'corridor of
uncertainty' in the center...
Anyway, trip home with mr. sumo jnr. was about 1000% better that outward.
He actually slept for about 6 of the 11 hours from Frankfurt - and at times
when his mother and I could eat (always the highlight when in business
class!). Of course the journey home wound not have been a 'sumo' family
trip without some problems. This time it was Lufthansa in London not having
the upgrade details on their computer screens. Once this was sorted of
course I completely failed to notice that the young girl at the check-in
counter had assigned my wife and I seats 4 rows apart! Not to worry - the
flight attendants put us together on board to Frankfurt and at Frankfurt
they sorted out the upgrades - we in fact ended up with the entire first row
in business class. My wife spread out in the left aisle, 'junior' asleep in
the baby-bed in the center whilst I crashed out in the right. Three people,
6 seats, and cabin crew who just told us to sit wherever we liked - and this
included in the galley where we took 'junior' when he needed to exercise his
lungs!
I'm thinking of giving Europe a miss for the next couple of years, then
again, unless I can get a machine-readable passport from the UK Embassy
(they assure me that the equipment will be installed by November), then it
looks like I won't be going to the USA either. I can just about accept the
machine-readable passport demands, but to have to apply for a tourist visa
in person seems a little overkill.
--
jonathan
--
"Never give a gun to ducks"
Dave Fossett
> Anyway, trip home with mr. sumo jnr. was about 1000% better that outward.
> He actually slept for about 6 of the 11 hours from Frankfurt - and at
times
> when his mother and I could eat (always the highlight when in business
> class!).
What's the in-flight entertainment like on Lufthansa these days? Do they
have seat-back video screens?
I am a fan of Virgin, since their planes to the UK have seats arranged
2+4+2, which greatly reduces the chances of having to spend 12 hours sitting
next to someone you don't know. Never having flown in anything other Economy
class, I can't comment on how their Business class compares.
--
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
mr.sumo snr.
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I don't recall Lufthansa having seat-back video screens. Of course in
business class you get the pop-up video screens. Three simple reasons I
always fly Lufthansa: they fly from Nagoya which is an hour down the
expressway; they're Star Alliance which means I can always use my United
airmiles to upgrade; I can buy the tickets direct from Lufthansa, paying
using my United credit card so I get miles on miles.
Of course everything is going to change in a couple of years when 'Centrair'
http://tinyurl.com/mtva opens. Maybe we'll finally get some direct UK
flights back at Nagoya (sorry - 35kms south of Nagoya)....at least for the
opening couple of years!
--
jonathan
Fabian
"mr.sumo snr." <mr_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Of course everything is going to change in a couple of years when
'Centrair'
> http://tinyurl.com/mtva opens. Maybe we'll finally get some direct UK
> flights back at Nagoya (sorry - 35kms south of Nagoya)....at least for
the
> opening couple of years!
You are about 35 km souyth of Nagoya? That pretty much describes me to a
tee. Anywhere near Kawagoe by any chance?
--
--
Fabian
I hate having to put on a show of being mean, but it seems the only way
to avoid people being mean to you these days is to be mean yourself.
mr.sumo snr.
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>
> "mr.sumo snr." <mr_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bjmcsv$kfr11$1...@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>
> > Of course everything is going to change in a couple of years when
> 'Centrair'
> > http://tinyurl.com/mtva opens. Maybe we'll finally get some direct UK
> > flights back at Nagoya (sorry - 35kms south of Nagoya)....at least for
> the
> > opening couple of years!
>
> You are about 35 km souyth of Nagoya? That pretty much describes me to a
> tee. Anywhere near Kawagoe by any chance?
>
>
NO! That's where the new airport is being built. I just didn't want to say
that the new airport was going to be in Nagoya - there are a few in the ng.
who would have felt the need to correct my mistake!
--
jonathan
Michael Cash
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
>"mr.sumo snr." <mr_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:bjmcsv$kfr11$1...@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>
>> Of course everything is going to change in a couple of years when
>'Centrair'
>> http://tinyurl.com/mtva opens. Maybe we'll finally get some direct UK
>> flights back at Nagoya (sorry - 35kms south of Nagoya)....at least for
>the
>> opening couple of years!
>
>You are about 35 km souyth of Nagoya? That pretty much describes me to a
>tee. Anywhere near Kawagoe by any chance?
Nagoya is near Kawagoe? This is news.
Fabian
> NO! That's where the new airport is being built. I just didn't want
to say
> that the new airport was going to be in Nagoya - there are a few in
the ng.
> who would have felt the need to correct my mistake!
Damn, that means they are probably gonna bulldoze my house to make room
:(
Fabian
"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
> >You are about 35 km souyth of Nagoya? That pretty much describes me
to a
> >tee. Anywhere near Kawagoe by any chance?
>
> Nagoya is near Kawagoe? This is news.
There is more than one Hamamatsu too. And I think Asahi is the
Springfield of Japan.
mr.sumo snr.
>
> "mr.sumo snr." <mr_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> > NO! That's where the new airport is being built. I just didn't want
> to say
> > that the new airport was going to be in Nagoya - there are a few in
> the ng.
> > who would have felt the need to correct my mistake!
>
> Damn, that means they are probably gonna bulldoze my house to make room
> :(
>
I'd have to say you probably gonna be safe - that is unless you live in
accommodation that has the worst case of rising damp in the last 100 years.
The airport is being built off-shore - then again they might bulldoze your
house in order to access the damn thing - though I think not if they haven't
already. Surely the construction of a new airport can't have occurred
unnoticed?
--
jonathan
The 2-Belo
>
>"Michael Cash" <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>
>> >You are about 35 km souyth of Nagoya? That pretty much describes me
>to a
>> >tee. Anywhere near Kawagoe by any chance?
>>
>> Nagoya is near Kawagoe? This is news.
>
>There is more than one Hamamatsu too. And I think Asahi is the
>Springfield of Japan.
Wouldn't be Marunouchi?
--
The 2-Belo
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Fabian
"The 2-Belo" <the2...@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> >There is more than one Hamamatsu too. And I think Asahi is the
> >Springfield of Japan.
>
> Wouldn't be Marunouchi?
I suppose it could be. But I never actually lived near a Marunouichi.
The 2-Belo
>
>"The 2-Belo" <the2...@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message
>news:3f602ece$0$2941
>
>> >There is more than one Hamamatsu too. And I think Asahi is the
>> >Springfield of Japan.
>>
>> Wouldn't be Marunouchi?
>
>I suppose it could be. But I never actually lived near a Marunouichi.
I know of at least three off the top of my head in Gifu Pref. alone, and there's
an area of Nagoya that's called such. Must be one of those all-purpose names,
like the American propensity to name streets after trees. Elm, Chestnut,
Maple...
Jason Cormier
"mr.sumo snr." <mr_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'd have to say you probably gonna be safe - that is unless you live in
> accommodation that has the worst case of rising damp in the last 100 years.
> The airport is being built off-shore - then again they might bulldoze your
> house in order to access the damn thing - though I think not if they haven't
> already. Surely the construction of a new airport can't have occurred
> unnoticed?
It can when he lives on the other side of Ise Bay from the new airport site.
Kawagoe is just past Kuwana, in Mie Prefecture.