Matisyahu's Blog

I left home on on Monday so I could chill out a few hours at the Qantas lounge – a nice way to start a long trip. I’m of two minds when it comes to planning a long trip – do you have a single flight and be in the air for 20+ hours or is it better to break up the flight and having rests in between those flights. In the case of me I took a 737 from Wellington to Sydney – the seats in business class are nice but the toilets, holy crap, if you’re 6’2″ then god help you – whether sitting or standing, skinny or chubby, it’s a nightmare. Maybe I should see if there is a surgery to knock a few inches off my stature lol.

Then from Sydney to Dubai and then Dubai to Paris we were on an Airbus A380 by Emirates – business class with nice comfortable seats, I’m able to have a proper nights sleep by laying down completely rather than trying to sleep sitting up. The meals were nice and of course I treated myself to some deserts from their night service and then had a good night sleep – something I learned though, when you put your chair down don’t put it all the way it is flat because the aircraft isn’t flying flat so you could imagine the sleep wasn’t that good.

Oh, and when I was in Sydney I indulged in their wonderful array of deserts – around the world in a dozen deserts with my favourite being the passionfruit cheese cake. It was delicious, it was sweet but not too sweet and the flavour wasn’t over powering. There was a wonderful chocolate mousse desert in the shape of a mellow puff. To quote the great YouTube philosopher im_kankan: “I’m here to get my money worth”. I’m on holiday so I might as well indulge.

When I arrived in Paris I relaxed on my first day because the weather was overcast so the next day, after having a decent night sleep, I went to the Louvre although we couldn’t buy ticket online because when mum tried to use her BNZ card to purchase it but because the BNZ app wasn’t setup on her phone this resulted in us not being able to buy tickets but if was any consolation we walked from the hotel to the Louvre (around a 40 minute walk) that there was a massive line, looking through the pyramids the place was completely packed so even if I could get the tickets I’d be dealing with a massive crowd. On a good side I went on one of those hop on/hop off buses which allowed us to get a good amount of photos taken from great angles – I just went crazy taking as many photos as I could and then I’ll upload the best photos to WordPress when I get back to New Zealand.