Guns and Frocks

Loving Delta and the Bannermen since 1987

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Friday, 8 February 2008

  • A view out the window of the Qantas lounge. There is a blue Vietnam Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac in the distance.
  • A slightly blurry picture of the inside of the Qantas lounge. A series of diagonal wooden frames leading off into the distance, with some passengers wandering around.
  • A round modernist table from the 1960s surrounded by couches; on the wall behind it are bookshelves with some books on display.
  • A tiny white plastic laptop. The browser is open on the WordPress admin page of this blog, showing a post being edited.

Welcome to Furius Abroad!

I’m writing this post mere hours before boarding my plane to London. I’m in the first class lounge, thanks to Calvin, but I can barely believe that I’m allowed here. Too scared to order food, drinks or massages, in case they throw me out for being too poor or badly dressed.

I’ve taken one or two photos of the lounge, which is a kind of glamorous, wood-panelled version of the Starship Enterprise’s Ten Forward. The photos are not very good, of course. I’m having to photograph discreetly, because, as I said, they’ll throw me out if I make any trouble.

I hope that you’ll come back here from time to time. All my photos from the trip will be available here, as well as the occasional mordant observation or hysterical cry for help.

And please feel free to write comments. This trip is incredibly poorly planned, so I’d love it if you suggested places I could visit or things I could do to keep myself occupied.