Thanks to the careful and gentle ministrations of Qatar airline, I and my entire luggage arrived safe and sound at Manchester at 13.30 BST. As we were coming in to land, the pilot came on the speaker system to tell us that the weather in Manchester was 8 degrees with light rain! Sure enough when the window blinds were raised in Business Class we were unable to see Manchester and its surroundings due to the heavy cloud cover.
After 10 months of almost constant sunshine and the last 6 weeks where the temperature even at night has been above 20 degrees it was quite a relief to see some proper Manchester drizzle. I have however, not packed any jumpers and so am now cold! I did try an pick something up in Tesco last night but unfortunately, they have their summer lines in so I will have to try somewhere else, for I suspect that the temperature will not be going up for a couple of weeks.
If you have ever wondered is it worth paying the extra for Business Class, let me say, ‘Yes it is’! I had thoroughly enjoyable time and the service was excellent. The food was delicious, and beautifully presented. We were given breakfast on the flight from Karachi to Doha, which comprised of fresh orange juice, scrambled eggs and grilled tomatoes. This was followed by the pastry basket and coffee. Then from Doha to Manchester we received breakfast again, though it was a different menu this time. This time it was stuffed artichoke heart, followed by Arabic meze and then the pastry basket again!! I thought that, that would be it but two hours before we landed lunch was served, so I selected the seafood cocktail with king prawns and gravlax followed by the fruit platter. All in all a very enjoyable and an experience which I get to repeat in 9 weeks time going in the other direction!!
Well I have lots planned for the next 9 weeks and so keeping watching for the next instalment of ‘Michael (temporarily) in England…’
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