Today I’m flying to LCY starting my month long vacation. I am flying on SQ MEL>SIN>AMS and BA AMS>LCY. I was not originally planning on travelling to London so it is an unprotected connection. I was very fortunate that at check in the agent interlined my bookings, sending my bags all the way to London City. I was dreading having to go through passport control in AMS twice to pick up my bags, and security, bag drop and pickup making for a very stressful and tight connection!



I started my journey with some lounge hopping in MEL. I visited the AMEX Centurion lounge (Meh), SQ Silverkris J (not too crowded but also underwhelming, Air New Zealand (good food selection and at least some sunlight!) and then based myself at The House longe. The views from The House were good with some nice runway action.



Had a good journey so far on my first leg with SQ. The meal service started later than I was expecting, about 2 hours after takeoff (so 5:45pm approximately AEST). But the menu did list it as dinner service after all… The steak was great, and with the pepper sauce was better than some cuts I’ve had on the ground in restaurants.



The cabin crew were a delight and I thanked them profusely, so they gave me some gifts at the end (socks, slippers etc) to take home.



For entertainment I watched Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness which was a good film if rather dark, and otherwise mostly listened to music. As much as I had planned on working on my computer …that did not eventuate.



Now sitting in the SIN J lounge waiting for my flight to AMS, will post another update soon.