Day 12: Sun 8 Sep – Dubai to Brisbane

Arrived in Dubai just after midnight, and as I had about 10 hours to wait until the flight to Brisbane, I took my time in finding the Emirates Lounge.  It was not quite so straight forward as before as I came in at a different gate.  Anyway, eventually found the lounge and had some breakfast and a wander through the lounge to try and shake away some of the cobwebs.  As there were a number of children in the same cabin as me, all competing to be the winner of the loudest screeching competition, on the flight from Dublin, I had watched 3 movies (The Hangover Part III, The Internship and The Croods) instead of trying to sleep.  Therefore, by the time I got to Dubai I was quite tired.     I found a relatively quiet area which had “beds” in it and had an LLD for 2 hours.  When I say quiet, it was away from the food areas so not too many people, however, the flight announcements were still made very loudly.  So, whilst the earplugs helped a bit, they didn’t keep all the noise out.  I then decided to have a shower to try and wake myself up so that I could possibly do some work on the MEPS Post Activity Report.  I managed to stay up for the rest of the time and by the time I boarded the plane for Brisbane, I was absolutely buggered and fell asleep as we were taxiing for take-off!  I only woke up when it was time for lunch to be served.




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