We flew through the night to Dubai. I decided to watch big Oscar winner Parasite, a South Korean film about two families, one very rich and one very poor. Oh dear what a disappointment. All of the characters were dreadful and the plot was rambling. I can’t imagine how it won the Oscar for best picture. Since it was night time there wasn’t much to see although we did get a very good view of the lights of Baghdad at one point and later we saw the flares of oil fields near Basra. We had decided to stay awake for the whole flight to increase our chances of having a kip between Dubai and Auckland, but when we arrived in Dubai it was 4 in the morning Scottish time so we felt a bit weary, and when we started on the next leg of our journey, from Dubai to Auckland, it was the equivalent of Scottish 6 a.m. I had been awake for 30 hours and by the time the plane took off I just couldn’t keep my eyes open any more. I had a good three hour sleep but missed dinner so found myself being given coffee and biccies by the very friendly cabin staff somewhere over the Indian Ocean. We flew from day into night and back into day as we traversed the whole of Australia before heading over the sea to New Zealand. Sixteen hours is a heck of a long flight. I watched three more films, including Judy, for which Renée Zellweger recently won the Best Actress Oscar, but in the end I no longer wanted to watch films nor read my book. I took a few strolls round the plane and dozed as much as I could.
We are now waiting at Auckland airport for our flight to Dunedin, the last two hours or so of our long journey.
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