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Previous | Contents | Next We were out in the countryside very quickly — dry paddy fields and scrub — and arrived at our first stop. And then sat waiting for two hours. It was as if the train was treating its timetable as an aspiration, not a target — like a ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next At the Gate we sat in the Special Needs area, next to the Premium line, which you can get away with at our age, and made it to our seats. The Purser looked us up on his list so he could greet us by name in that ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next The check-in kiosks were new and unfamiliar, and neither they nor the security scanners liked my passport, which had developed a mark of some sort on the photo page. The Baggage Check hall was full of passengers, more new machinery, several processing lines — only one of ... Read more