Seven miles above the earth, sipping on Dom Perignon while I nibble on Haagen Dasz chocolate ice-cream with some kind of pie that has orange peel in it. Bailey’s on ice frappe to follow, and for the first time, I wish air travel still permitted smoking. A cheap sweet cigar would have been SO good here. Or perhaps a fill of Amphora Cherry Cavendish.
I love upgrades. Sybaritic? Decadent? Bring it on, I say. And the pleasure is all the sweeter for knowing that sooner or later, this man will say “Dude, you’re doing that on MY money!” Thanks, dude, now with the aforementioned pride and admiration there’s also gratitude.
Far below us is
The mountains I can see at this moment, however, could do with a make-over. Perhaps even personal stylists.
Then suddenly, dramatically, a huge massif, chocolate dark with crumbly crags, dusted with fresh cream and icing sugar* …
I love these flying geography lessons. Like Goh Cheng Leong brought to life, or the Oxford Atlas from Metropolitan Book Store, only in bright new 3-D. If only I could connect to Google Earth in-flight. That can’t be more than 3 years away, watch this space.
Meanwhile, the sunset glows through the portholes over on the other side of the cabin. And I find some Bulgari in the wash-room. Tedium is so much more tolerable when one smells good.
* - I can’t download the picture from my phone without the connector cable. Which is back in
18 comments:
ah...goh cheng leong. lose companion of my teen years. sigh.....
A tip from a techno-greek dying to show off: If your phone is Bluetooth enabled, you can transfer to a laptop or another phone whose cable is available.
Goh Cheng Leong.. well.. now, there's a memory!
I see that you are also (conveniently) in flight from the headless chicken of Kolkata. Well done!
Glad to see you back.
not quite sure how you went from iran to karachi to muscat while holding on to your nor'westerly tack, but good on the dom p, i say.
Bailey's! Baileyyyyyyy's!! Baaaaaaaaaaaaailey's !!!
I like.
Such tedium indeed -dude, upgrades, Dom Perignon,pie with orange peel, Bailey's - so sated with the good life that you mistake a mountain for mud pie -flying geography lessons and Bulgari in the washroom ????? Decadent hedonism is what I call it - and there's a bit of my money in it so thank me too .
BTW - Goh Cheng Leong - aah school and Mrs Bodhanwalla .
Hmmm.....Dom P. and Bulgari - quite the decadence, if I may say so, even for the non-cattle class.
The less unfortunate make do with cheap merlot
(although the kangaroo airlines does serve a middling shiraz even on its domestic sector).
btw, bubbly with ice-c. ?! not quite up my alley, but sounds like an interesting mash-up :)
Oh, so that's where you've been! And I was beginning to think there was a jinx on the blogs I blogrolled, making their owners disappear!
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
I wish air travel still permitted smoking.
An online petition is called for. Because, you know, after all the frenetic activity in the Mile High Club, one needs a relaxing smoke.
Dom Perignon with Haagen Dasz. Hmm...interesting combination. To each his own I guess.
If they allowed in-flight smoking, I would almost always fly KLM, despite its shitty reputation, coz you know, when we are over Dutch airspace, no air hostess can stop me from joining the more literal Mile High club.
The romance of names, shotti. Beautifully described too.
rzSpace Bar, I'll go looking for an old copy.
I-Smith, apparently I need a Bluetooth password. Which I don't know. Thanks anyway.
Vivek, back in a few hours. Here's to red meat!
Nehaj, likewise.
Prof, go check the tenses.
??!, how about some nice Cockburn's port?
E Lungs, well then, thank you, it was luvverly.
Pondit Moshai, next time I'll have the champers IN the ice-cream. The ultimate smoothie!
D, still very much here.
J.A.P.
Renovatio, is that the Scouse band?
KM, I'm afraid I'll have to take your word for it about the Mile High Club. Are memberships open for geriatrics?
Arsenik, safer to land in Amsterdam.
Opaline, open a map of Central Asia, read the place-names out loud - when they roll off your tongue it's like a coloured high, pages from story-books long ago.
J.A.P.
Renovatio, is that the Scouse band?
KM, I'm afraid I'll have to take your word for it about the Mile High Club. Are memberships open for geriatrics?
Arsenik, safer to land in Amsterdam.
Opaline, open a map of Central Asia, read the place-names out loud - when they roll off your tongue it's like a coloured high, pages from story-books long ago.
J.A.P.
Oh- so THAT explains why you were online at odd hours. Am back now. Waaahh.
Cheap cigars, hurrah. Henri Wintermans are usually decent. Is this a holiday?
Also, would you mind if I added a link to your blog at The Unpronounceable Grape?
-Jabberjee
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