The agony during a long flight

Any flight that is longer than two hours is a long flight for me and I dont like them, I have been in long flights recently (Brussels-NYC, NYC-Brussels – 8 hours ), (Brussels – Malaga, 3 hours), (Istanbul – Brussels, 4 hours 30).

New York – Brussels and Istanbul – Brussels were particularly painful flights, first going home is always a bit sad, the only case I’m happy to go home is when I don’t like the place that visited, it was the case when I came back from Bucharest (Romania), I was happy to leave that country. Secondly, I m always tired when I take the plane to go home no matter what hour the flight is, it is because my last day of travel is always extremely long, I remember than when I came back from Madrid in February that last day was long, I woke very early in my hotel in Extremedura, then I took the train to Madrid (3 hours and half), I arrived at 12, I managed to walk several hours in the city visiting then I headed to the airport , I had my flight at 8 P.M, an ok flight of two hours 20 minutes, however, the day was so long that I was tired during the flight.

I can’t rest well in plan, seats are bad and there is always a lot of noise, When I came back from New York I managed to watch a divx movie on my laptop , this is a good thing to do however, the battery was discharged at end of the movie, I still had a good 6 hours in the plane, flight are often interrupted with lunch, drink , duty-free break, which make difficult to go sleep straight all the flight, I tried but I couldn’t due to strong tiredness I managed to sleep may be one hour and half at the very best.
The rest of the time I stared through the window, glanced at magazine pages, watching TV during the flight didn’t appeal to me, too tired to watch anything.

I was left only agonizing, my best agonizing flight was Istanbul-Brussels, I had extraordinary thirst, I drunk a lot at the AtaTurk airport and a lot during the flight, the night before I was partying in Tbilisi the capital of republic of Georgia and I guess that I drank a little bit too much of Cognac and vodka, this should explain my agonising situation during the flight.

My next long flight will be in July (I go back to NYC) I have some months to prepare.;)

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