28 December 2016: a long journey to Hong Kong!

It all started well.. we left sunny Hertfordshire after lunch on 27 December, and within a few hours we were enjoying a stopover at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. A thoroughly civilised place .. PS4 on tap, great retail therapy and a delicious dinner in a nice restaurant.

So we boarded the Air France A380 for Hong Kong in a jolly frame of mind. That didn't last long. Boarding complete, the plane sat on the tarmac for an hour while it was de-iced (err, maybe that could have been done in parallel with boarding?). The big old bird finally took off, and the 500 souls on board then enjoyed a dinner that didn't have much in common with the finer aspects of French cuisine .. oh well. Twelve hours and five movies later, we landed at Chek Lap Kok. A short while later, we noticed that Teenage Son was using the Airport Express train to start his battle with jet lag. Who wins? Read on ..