I don’t think my last post came through in the previous thread so I’ve started a new one here. If you’ve already read the following… apologies for doubling up

Finally hello again

When first leaving Melbourne, I lounged around the Emirates lounge sampling their delicious food before boarding. I started with red and golden beetroot with goats cheese and moved onto a tiny 5 star spice duck pie with broccolini and braised eggplant which was delicious.

Finished with a tiny but tasty chocolate patisserie.

Of course they served dinner on board which I then couldn’t eat but managed to ‘fit in’’ some Arabic mezze….baba ganouche,, lamb kibbeh, hummus, olives. And had my first for the trip, Aperol Spritz and decided I definitely prefer Campari and soda. I had a mess around with my lie flat bed and found it was fine. Figured out how to charge my iPhone, took my sleeping pill, the bed was comfy and warm so I slept for 7 hours which was very good.

Dubai Airport is enormous, huge. It was all up about 5 km from the terminal I landed to the terminal I had to leave for next flight… plus a fast train ride in the middle. I was pretty exhauted.

Temperature was 31’C / 90’F outside at 5.30 in the morning as the sun was rising. The impressive high rise buildings emerging out of the early morning sea fog from the Persian Gulf was quite a sight.