So my final few hours found me wondering down the shopping Mecca of Orchard Road. Here, apartments rent for 20,000 a month and the shop rents must be enormous, but you can always visit for shops and restaurants, for free - so I did. Oh I said all this already, I must be getting sentimental about the place.
Anyway at the airport it was easy since terminal 3 is a lovely wide open uncrowded spot... And then on to the world's biggest passenger plane...
The pic below, from the airport is for Kris mainly... Purple Gold. A Singapore only thing it is 80% pure yellow gold, then other metals mixed in so it is purple....
The A380 is partly frightening and partly deceiving. Sure you board and notice it is big because there are 2 gangways to load people if nothing else, then you sit down and look at how the other planes parked outside look so tiny. And the wing looks like the SkyPark in Marina Bay. Your eyes are not used to something so large to fly in I suppose....
Beautiful interior, all new and 6.5 hours to BladeRunner city Tokyo.
Take off was weird too, the plane trundles along and vibrates and such like all aircraft, but the engine noise is much reduced. The interior air pressure lower and humidity higher than most planes for a better feeling. But you don't hear that roar, and I was expecting a large one to lift this thing in to the sky.... I was on the top deck, still in economy, but sites say it's the best economy cabin on the plane. Didn't see the suites with full beds up front. Due to the shape of the plane there's a small personal bin by the window, so you don't sit right up against it.
Look how long the wings are and the 767 just beyond it, there's another A380 right behind that... On the upper deck there's a small personal locker bin right under the window, due to the shape of the plane, so I don't sit right up against the window with a window seat...
Upper deck economy class is roomier than the lower deck...
I am not sure the picture really shows the size of the wing...
It was more bumpy than the few clouds he promised on take off, but, overall an ok flight. I tried not to worry about something the size of a shopping mall bouncing in turbulence at 35,000 feet however... Of course he crew are handing out drinks and taking it all in their stride.... The Japanese woman next to me guzzled about 15 beers.
They brought around the menus, the inflight amenity bag and then David's pills kicked in...
Oh look, we're in Tokyo ! Ohayo! The whacky world of Japan awaits.... With Yakitori sauce on the side please...
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