checked in on BA873
Still full of cold this morning. It’s our last day in Krakow. Actually I’m at in the Euro-IX conference all day. Anne has gone off walking again with kay. They are talking about doing a Jewish Quarter tour today.
Great dinner at the salt mines last night. Amazing place. You must go and visit. Good to chat with lots of industry friends from around Europe. Featured image is the main church in one of the salt mine chambers. amazing. Hand carved by three people over decades.
Made it home for around midnight ish I think. Don’t fully recall. Fitful night’s sleep because of coughing all the time. Feel sorry for Anne who is a light sleeper at the best of times.
Now sat in the conference listening to Nick Hillyard talking about exporting SFlow telemetry. Trying to check in online but unfortunately we are not seated together. Did try last night from my phone but the app wouldn’t play ball which is a shame – we might have been sat together.
Currently down to get a taxi at 4pm although I’m not sure my lightning talk starts until then. Will have to see how we get on.
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Here we are again. Another flight. this one is BA873 non stop from Krakow to LHR. Anne and I are in seats 1A and 1C. I think it’s worth treating ourselves when we go away on trips together. No lounge at Krakow airport though. At least not one we could get into with a BA Club Europe ticket. We spent the time near to gate 15. I sat in the cafe/bar having a beer with Ignas from Equinix and three linx boys whilst Anne read her book. The time went quickly enough.
This flight takes me to within 10 tier points of a BA silver card. My year runs out on 8th may so I’ll definitely do it. The benefit of silver is automatic lounge access (assuming there is one, fast track through security and the ability to check in and therefore reserve a seat 7 days before take off. I don’t always book a club ticket and even then I can’t reserve a seat without paying. Anne and I were in different rows on this flight home. It’s only because the guy sat next to her was ok with moving that we are sitting together. Not that there is much communication between us. I have my Bose phones on and she is nodding off. We have both finished out books. At least I’ve read as much of mine as I want to. History of Wales by John Davies. I’m not interested much beyond 1830. The early 18th century is very poorly documented. I am interested in 1700 – 1800. At the moment. Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire.
Also interested in Irish history but one step at a time. My Foreign Birth Registration docs have been sent off as you know. The Irish side is I think going to be a lot harder to trace. We were farm hands and illiterate nobbut 3 generations ago. My great grandmother was the daughter of a farmer and signed her name with an X. My research there may have to be more general historic stuff. The church records may save us. I suspect they may be more complete than in Wales. There is nothing wrong with the illiteracy. Go back far enough and we were all illiterate. Just makes the ancestors harder to trace I suspect. One of my Welsh ancestors was a poet. Not been able to trace anything of his stuff yet but I may still get here once I have put the effort in.
Have finished the meal on the plane. couple of gin and tonics first. Then a chicken skewer with caesar salad. Ok. Nothing special but in a scenario where expectations were low it was fine. Two small bottles of red and some stilton. Mellow. Taxi picking us up from LHR. Laptop now out and typing.
Now playing Mood Indigo. Satchmo and Duke Ellington. What a combination.
This flight is 2 hours 40 minutes. It is long enough for them to offer a properly boozy service. The outbound flight seemed a little more constrained in terms of the service. Half and hour or twenty minutes shorter. Maybe it was just the staff. This steward has been quicker off the mark.