Today’s flight to the UK had the potential to be super interesting. Historically (well 30 years of post Soviet history since they opened their airspace) this flight tracked west across Russia, right across Europe and into Heathrow down the Thames.
However that changed with recent global events and that airspace is closed again so it’s added a few hours to the flight and now tracks east through the Bering Strait over northern Canada, down through Greenland, over Scotland and into London that way. I was excited that I would see lots of ice, look towards the North Pole, maybe see an iceberg or two…..
What did I see ? Fucking darkness. It’s fucking winter on the winter solstice and I saw fuck all. One of the disadvantages of travelling in the northern hemisphere winter I guess. I’ll have to do this trip one day in the northern summer.
It's all about the coffee 