Flight: Heathrow - Brunei

Amazingly I got up and made my flight with zero hassle. Flying with Royal Brunei was a little bit wierd. Before taking off the flight was blessed with an Islamic chanting prayer which went on for ages. This was a novelty the first time, but because of the various stops (Dubai then Brunei) by the time it got to the third time the novelty had worn off. Also a booze free airline!

I got a window seat from Heathrow - Brunei so had a wonderful view. On the TV screen in front of my seat a little plane icon charted our progress but after 10 minutes of playing with the screen trying to get a movie playing I had broken it so I got a bit disorientated what I was seeing out the window. I am pretty sure I saw the Alps, it was getting dark around Turkey then I saw a really pretty sunrise over India. China was very odd; lots of flat fields with incongruous mountains cropping up randomly without purpose. The person next to me was a nervous 18 year old and slept a lot so between that and my occasional "don't talk to me" death glare I was left alone to enjoy the scenery, play games, read and do puzzles. It was a looooong 16 hours at the time and was glad of the uber brief stop in Dubai (20 minutes walk around the airport) half way so I could stretch my legs.

Finally we landed in Brunei for a 10 hour stop, which I was really looking forward to as it was a proper foreign land!