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!