Most of
today was spent on planes. We arrived in
Dubai at 6am their time in the morning, (12.30pm Aussie time) and only had a
short stop over here. No time at all to
spare to explore the airport, as we only had an hour and twenty minutes before
our connecting flight to Copenhagen left.
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| Dubhai Airport |
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| Our plane waiting for us on the tarmac - |
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| Wingspan was ginormous |
We had been
told back in Australia that our arrival gate and departure gate were close by,
and this is probably correct but we still had a good km walk between to the two
gates. This airport is ginormous, goes on for ever. The shops are very expensive looking but we
didn’t have time to explore them on this leg of the journey….
By the time
we arrived in Dubai, our flight to Copenhagen was already to boarding stage so
it was straight from one plane onto the next…
The flight
to Copenhagen was aboard their new 800 airbus.. What a flight. The seats were way more comfortable, lovely
large touch screens, mounted on the seat in front…
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| Rows of spare seats opposite us made for an enjoyable flight... |
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| More comfortable seating and large touch screen behind each seat |
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| Two levels on the airbus.. |
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| Pretty excited to be on this final leg... |
This flight surprised us as it was half
empty, there were spare seats all around us so we were well and truly able to
sprawl out for this leg of the
journey. We had thought this leg was
also a 8 hour leg but found out as we took off that it was only 6 and a half
hours… What a relief, big comfy plane, plenty of space and no where
near as long a flight as we expected.
We didn’t
sleep at all on this leg of the flight.
Instead we watched a couple of movies, had a good chat to the folk
behind us who had also traveled from Brisbane,
enjoyed the scenery from the plane window as this leg of our journey was
all in daylight.
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| Take off from Duhbai |
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| Views leaving Duhbai |
We had good
views of the desert around Dubai,
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| Desert near Dubhai |
and flew over snow capped mountains just
before the Caspian Sea.
We arrived
into Copenhagen about 10minutes ahead of schedule. It was damp and overcast when we arrived, a
little like it was when we arrived back in 2016.
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| Cloud views as we approached Copenhagen. Quite stunning.. |
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| Excitement plus as we have less than five minutes before landing in Copenhagen |
Touch down in Copenhagen
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| Touching down in Copenhagen |
It took us a
little while to get our suitcase and by the time we got out Pete was there
waiting for us. It was 9 degrees
outside so not really that cold at all.
Steve was only in a T shirt and I had a three quarter length T shirt on
but we didn’t feel like we needed to put on our coats. In fact the cool air felt great on our
skin. Very refreshing…
We caught
the Metro from the airport into the city and then caught the bus home to Pete
and Maria's. It was a little after 1pm
when we arrived home at their place….
Theo had
just woken up from his sleep and was having a feed. He really is the most beautiful baby. We enjoyed our first lots of cuddles. Pete remained home with us for about an hour
before he had to go back into work.
We were
pretty zonked but didn’t want to go to bed too early as we knew we would have
trouble sleeping all night. The sun set
at 3.30pm and by 5pm it felt like 10pm at night…
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| Our beautiful baby boy with his Mumma |
Maria went
out and got take away Indian for us for dinner whilst we minded Theo. We had dinner and decided to have a shower to
see if that would keep us awake a little longer. By 7.30pm we gave into the sleep and called
it quits and went to bed….
We had a
good 12 and a half hour sleep. The
beauty of it being winter here at the moment is that the sun still hadn’t risen
at 8am the following morning when we woke up.
Much easier to sleep when it is dark….
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