6/12 Korea to Australia

We were ALL ready for a holiday and so glad to take the relaxing limousine airport bus to Incheon airport, then have a coffee and hang out waiting for boarding. We are going to Australia; first time for Kylie, Amy, Bentley and Jay; of course "home" for Beth.

We had done very little preparation, other than decide that we want to travel in Australia and see the country a bit, so we opted for an itinerant route: Sydney, Blue Mountains, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide. Today we flew from Korea to Singapore then Sydney. There are more direct routes, but this one is on Singapore Airlines; why not take the world's number one airline?

After a 5 hour flight to Singapore we went into Changi terminal and found a bite to eat. Subway for some, pratha and potato curry for me!, then we went to our boarding gate. We boarded the Singapore Airlines A380 on time, but after abandoning the first take off attempt, we headed back to the gate so the engineers could check into why one of the two monster engines was not developing enough thrust for take-off? I was glad to be flying Singapore. You never hear about Singapore planes falling out of the sky (like Air France... ) because of SIA's meticulous training and attention to maintenance, not standard in all airlines! So the one hour delay turned into 2 hours - but life is worth an extra hour we felt.

Flying on the "largest airplane in the world" was fun! We ran upstairs to the economy, upper level just to see it. Then enjoyed the spacious seats and especially the 70% capacity, so Kylie and Jay had 4 seats each - enough to stretch full length; AMy had 3 seats - with a window bonus; Beth kept Bentley company and he slept in two seats. It was fairly restful, though arriving in Sydney at noon we did not notice the rest we got.