Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Travel Blogging XI

We are home! Flying business class is the only thing that makes modern flying civilized, albeit at substantial cost. We had great leg room and seats that recline nearly flat. The food was decent and the heated mixed nuts are wonderful. I've eaten a lot of salted mixed nuts in a long and mostly misspent life but never tried heating them, it is a great improvement.

Movies on demand are great too, if only Hollywood would produce something worth watching. Most of what was offered was what is known as "chickflicks," that is, films that appeal mostly to women. I think this is as much as function of the time of year as anything else. Action flicks and other "guy movies" tend to come out during summer and at Christmas. I ended up watching the Bond movie Quantum of Solace twice, once to see it again and once more to fall asleep (it worked).

From leaving the hotel in Munich to arriving at our place in CA took 24 hours of elapsed time, and yet because of the time difference we arrived home the same day we left Munich and only 15 hours later. BTW, it was snowing gently in Munich Monday morning, very pretty but not warm.