Today brings two emails which start to make the holiday seem very real.
Food
The first came as a surprise. We have flown with Virgin Atlantic for many years, but this is the first time we have been asked about food in advance of the flight.
The email said:
This was followed by a link for me to click to confirm the choices from the range of food available.
The options are:
Stir fried pork with Asian vermicelli vegetable noodles and Beijing bean sauce.
Chicken and mushroom casserole Buttered new potatoes and green beans.
Asparagus and ricotta gnocchi with Spicy tomato sauce, sweet peppers and broccoli.
I wonder what you would have chosen, dear reader. It was rather an easy choice for me, as it is Friday when we are flying, a day when the Church asks us to abstain from meat it is going to be the Asparagus and ricotta gnocchi.
I checked with Drew and he opted for the Pork, telling me how lovely and meaty it will be!! He does like rubbing it in when I have to abstain, as I am an instinctive meat eater!
Virgin Atlantic confirmed the choices with a few moments of us making them.
Sleep
The second email I was expecting, as we have experienced it in the past. This was out chance to Check-in online for our airport hotel. The Premier Inn, Bath Road, Heathrow.
That all sorted it made me feel the holiday is just a short few hours away, which I admit is a lovely feeling.
Definitely the pork
ReplyDeleteHi Heather,
Deletethat would have been my choice too, if it hadn't been for the fact that it is a Friday! Well it is worth making a little sacrifice for all the good things my faith gives me.
Asparagus please!
ReplyDeleteI'll make sure I take a photo of it, so that it will even out number (not!) the amount of meat :-)
DeleteAs a vegetarian it would have to be the choice you made. That is one thing I like about being a vegetarian that you get your food first after the children and you usually get good choices. Often though there is too much food - read an article about this recently and it was not always the case you were given food on a flight. My last flight in Jan was epic for one reason the leg from Shanghai to London had been packed with a LOT of fish and not a lot of beef for the carnivores and so the whole plane stank as people had no choice within a very short time of service starting!
ReplyDeleteOh dear,
Deletethat's a great story Linda, I guess it is hard for them to predict, and to have enough to give everyone a choice could well mean carrying to much, with all the risk of waste.
Virgin Atlantic mention the waste factor as one of the reasons for giving the option - I bet it helps their planning and wonder why other airlines haven't taken this approach before?
"He does like rubbing it in when I have to abstain, as I am an instinctive meat eater!"
ReplyDeleteLies upon lies upon deceits upon lies :-)
:-)
DeleteWho might it possibly have been whose email reply was (and I quote):
"Pork. Lovely meaty pork. Pork pork pork piggy pork
😀😗😙😚😘😚😙"