We arrived home yesterday afternoon after a looong flight from Vancouver. The first flight, that is, Auckland-Vanocuver was quite pleasant, we and space and the plane and service were quite nice. We slept a little and actually tried to start our 12 hours daytime zone adaptation, but I can tell you already that for me it has not worked.
When we got to Vancouver, we had 8 hours of wait till the next flight, so we just came out of the airport and made a very brief visit to Vancouver. It turns out this city is quite beautiful and worth a longer visit. It has a very nice waterfront on the bay and is surrounded by snowy mountains. We took a two hour stride around a seaside park called Stanley Park and then headed back to the airport.
The fresh air and walk helped us face the last leg of the trip. Unfortunately, this last leg was with my most favourite airline, KLM and my fears turned out to be true. The drop in overall quality is astounding when you get down from a normally nice airplane and get into a KLM one. I will spare you the tales of my woes, suffice it to say that I will try very, very hard to not get into a KLM plane again very soon.
Anyway, even after this last tiring leg of the trip, we made it in one piece to Schiphol airport and completed our trip around the world!
It has been an incredible adventure almost non stop. We have done lots and lots of crazy and fascinating things and to be honest, I was not really tired of having so much fun, but the time ran out and now it is time to get back into reality!
Yes reality does indeed suck , but welcome back safe and sound all the same...
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