A shop in the shopping mall attached to our hotel in Tokyo. They seem to specialise in cakes & desserts with strawberries. ![]() Talking of mixing languages: a couple of Japanese cigarette packages. "Pianissimo pêche menthol one" is not bad. ![]() Next day, our flight is overbooked, so we get upgraded to first class again. Before the meal, while the bunnies look out of the window, I enjoy a glass of champagne & a plate of canape: salmon & shiitake spring roll with shiso leaf, swordfish? & yellow cherry tomato on a skewer with spicy sauce, a big prawn with salmon roe & shiitake. ![]() We're not very hungry and just order a starter of scallops & asparagus, with a side salad. (Interestingly, the other two passengers on my side, both Japanese, have ordered scallops too. We must be a nation of scallop lovers.) ![]() Now flying over Siberia. The view out of the window is boring, it's time to sleep off the champagne. UsaKousa get a comfy cushion to sleep on, I get a proper duvet :-) ![]() Several hours later: fat slices of smoked salmon while flying over Oslo. ![]() So the flight has been pleasant, but the idiot BA ground staff** at Narita has checked my luggage through to Berlin, and now I'm stuck with food items I was meant to drop off in London. I can't send it by post (it's too hot in England, it'll go off) and don't know what to do - eat it myself, I guess? (**I mean, how could I have possibly caught the 16:05 flight to Berlin on the same day, if my incoming flight was arriving at Heathrow at 17:15?? I've complained using the online form, and at least they've sent an apology straight away.) |