Airports and the Faux-Pas of traveling.....

The fun-filled journey between Australia and Europe is always an experience, even if it is a dull one.


The story so far:

I am on my way to France- SWEET AS- for three months that will hopefully be filled with Powder snow, blue skies and smiles.....and rainbows, don't forget the rainbows.

I am going to be starting in London (for 5 days) and then make my way onto France, to Les Arcs and then to Chamonix! January will be committed to exploring the wonderland of those slopes; and the last two months who knows where I will end up...................

Airports.

It always amazes me that airports can be such a functional, structural, bureaucratic and pen-pushing place an yet so disorganised. Travelers; despite age, ethnicity or travel-style will take and make a small section of each airport their own, furnishing it with their luggage, duty free and fast food. They may take up a small seat, a reclining chair, hog the free internet for hours or decided to plunk down their belongings and stretch out and lie down on their small piece of ground (very fashionable at Changi Airport in Singapore right now).

It is incredible that we can fill up and make such a well-designed space so messy! I guess you can regard it as the creative side of human nature- there is nothing more fun than ruining order.


Luggage Faux Pas

Not that I am self-conscious while traveling but I feel like I always seem to stand out in transit. That could possibly be to do with the ridiculous amount of carry-on luggage that I seem to accumulate and the oversized ski-bag.

I refuse to give into Qantas who only allow me 23kg of luggage (inclusive of my ski gear).....so I tend to carry-on everything that is not allowed in my checked baggage. I am sure everyone has their horror stories about airports and the ruthless check-in bitch that made them carry half of their luggage on the plane but unfortunately the ‘pack horse look’ has become a certain style of mine.

HOW TO CREATE THIS LOOK: I basically hang everything that doesn’t fit in my backpack-off my back pack, sling those jumpers around your waist!

My tatty bags and loose items of clothing look very uncool against the suave and sleek roller luggage of other travelers who casually roll up next to me at the airport gate. I slowly plod about the airport, stripped to a singlet, because carrying the extra 12kgs really works up a sweat. But at the end of the day I figure that those extra jumpers will serve me well in the next few months--so I don’t consider this so much as a ‘faux pas’ but merely frowned upon by the trendy, I can’t say it is very minimalistic.

Taking food off planes--Yes or No?

Being the dispensible single serve system that flight travel turns out to be I always feel quite dodgey taking my leftover sandwiches with me but Qantas does such a nice vegetarian sandwich how can you resist?

Especially when inspired by Fight Club......

"Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends."

.....I guess no one will miss the singular serve food I nick from the plane.

Well now- off to explore London and get my nose re-pierced :D