KLM

We've just come back from a week away in Australia, visiting Amy's Nana and Grandma as well as her parents. More of that in another post. I wanted first to have a rant about KLM, our chosen operator for our journey from Warsaw-Adelaide.

KLM's literature suggests that flying with them offers 'A unique experience'. I guess it's true, but not really a 'unique' experience I want to repeat for a while.

All of the stewardesses had serious attitude problems, they were curt and abrupt. This was comblined with small and hard seats and a laughable inflight 'entertainment' system.

Things started to go wrong just before the stewardess on the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur leg of our journey, woke me up by spilling a whole plastic cup of orange juice on me in the middle of the night.

At another point a stewardess told me that the vegetarian option was fish (hmmm)....After that things went from the sublime to the ridiculous, missing out the sublime altogether....

The inflight entertainment system was a joke. It consisted of overhead TV screens spread very sparingly throughout the plane. On our return journey the TV was at such an acute vertical angle above our heads that you had to seriously crick your neck to see anything on it. Not that we seemed to be missing much as it looked like it was airing mostly Disney classics and series 2 Simpson episodes.

The standards reminded me of a budget 'no-frills' flight - but on a long-haul flight and with none of the advantages of the cheap airline ticket.

Luckily we had a 7 month old baby to entertain us throughout the flight - I think everyone else enjoyed her singing as well (he he) Actually she managed the flight really well and probably coped better than either her Mum or Dad.