Our layover in Helsinki was just a few hours, so time to calmly walk to the other side of the airport, to through customs and get to the gate. Close to the gate was a restaurant where we had drink an we shared a salmon salad.
Meanwhile I tried to fix some last things on the website, which did not work very well, so I guess that will have to wait until the weekend when we are in Australia to be fixed.
Once the boarding call came, we walked to the gate, where an Airbus A350 was waiting for us. Our section had a 3-3-3 setup and my seat was exactly in the middle. The seat entertainment had plenty of options to keep us busy during the flight.
I started with the latest Mission Impossible as it does not take a lot of thinking and is almost 3 hours long. It was pretty terrible, but killed time effectively. One annoyance in the seat entertainment was that you are force fed 2 minutes of commercials before the movie starts. I guess my ticket wasn’t expensive enough as it was.
The second movie I watched was The Naked Gun, of course not as good as the originals, but entertaining enough on a flight.
After the movies I was able to sleep a bit, although I did not sleep as good as I remember from earlier flights. Still got some rest.
We arrived 20 minutes ahead of schedule at 5:45 in Bangkok, where it was already pretty warm. It seems BKK airport wanted to surprise international guests with a christmas song, but is was literally A christmas song, they had Jingle Bell on repeat. It is an annoying song to start with, but on the 15-20 minute walk to the security check it got old very quick and I put my headphones on so I could listen to some nice music.
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