Long haul from - upside down at the bottom of the world

It was a good price for overnight flight but i can see why. The plane left australia 9pm sunday night so a fair bit of waiting around to start with and then first leg to Doha ... with Qatar airlines about 13 hours. The novalty of movies on demand is wearing off but then in between aust and madrid i did watch three movies and a couple of TV shows. Must say the Shape of water was disappointing as was I Tonya ... Three Billboards was better but the pick i thought was a couple of episodes of Mr Robot.

Arrived at Doha airport about 5am there were literally hundreds going through looking for connecting flights across the globe ... globe trotters incorporated.

After waiting around for four hours it was another seven hours to Madrid. People have been saying that most people speak some English but so far I've found a lot saying either they don't speak English or a very little.

It was interesting navigating the trains .. there are two operators .. like our airport train .. privately owned and in competition with the Metro. I bought a ticket for the metro but after some questioning of the attendants i ended up buying a second ticket .. i know now because the guy didn't want to explain that i had to change trains once or maybe twice to get where i needed to be whereas the other train went straight there. So he said jyst buy another one.

In the course of navigating the airport i asked for advice on directions and found that the young woman i was talking too had just completed a study on feminist perspective on orgasms and was very interested in forthcoming conference. She even said she might try and come. I gave her my card and some info.

Anyhow will write some more tomorrow night got to go to bed zzzzz