Flight to The Flat Land

It has been utterly quiet in this blog but so much noise is going on in my life. It turned out that the noise  has made my mind so confusingly plain and distracted. I just crossed the first phase and will see how things will roll out.

During this period, I had an extremely short visit to the flat land! where windmills, canals and farms fill the horizon. I went to the Netherlands for something a little longer than a single day.

Flying from Tripoli to Amsterdam was not that long. I flew KLM and was impressed with the way that flight was handled. It was the first flight I have been to in which the crew exclusively and personally trained the passengers who were sitting by the emergency exits on how to operate the door rather than just referring them to the "safety sheet in front of you". They also handed an infant life jacket to anyone with a baby rather than just announcing "life jacket for infants are available in the plane" :) There was no TV but it was for sure better than Alitalia that shows fashion shows and cheap magic trick circuses on the TV over and over. No wonder they had to be sold off!
I had a Libyan couple beside me who were heading to the states for their studies. Soon after the flight, the guy started to act impatient...delayed smoke...he kept asking for glasses of water one after another till the stewardess finally guessed what was going on. He was not at all impressed when she told him that Amsterdam airport is a non-smoking airport....he was on to a couple of hours of transit before an even longer non-smoking flight to the US mid-west!

Comments

[anna]

I guess you were on a business trip; did you actually have the chance to something in the Netherlands? Regards, Anna

[Abadany Dar Holland]

Hi! So you visited my country! In Amsterdam airport there are still a few places where you can smoke but that is only until this July. Hope you had fun here!

[Georg Hausherr]

Bonjour Mr. Behi,

I guess you went straight to some meeting, then to the hotel and then back home.

In case you have seen something interesting to you, don't miss to tell about it. You have a knack doing this.

Georg

[Ali]

Hey bro,

I sent you an e-mail a while ago after you mentioned your trip to the Netherlands. Hope it got to you. If you wrote back I haven't got anything. Use my university e-mail instead cause apparently the yahoo mail is acting up. Glad to hear you're out and about. Drop a few lines and let me know how it all went and what's next.

Cheers

Ali

[Paul]

Good to hear another message from you. You should visit the United States if you can. I plan to visit your country, also.

[Paul]

Good to hear another message from you. You should visit the United States if you can. I plan to visit your country, also.

[Paul]

Good to hear another message from you. You should visit the United States if you can. I plan to visit your country, also.

[Greg]

Nice to have you back. As a side note, I noticed your Terra (not Terror) link has changed: http://terranotterror.com/
Just thought I'd help a bit.