The Russian Flight

This is where we met Bella the Russian ticket clerk. She set us up with the seating arrangement from NYC to Russia and on to Frankfort Germany. She said she would have to change our seating arrangement since we have wheelchairs. Gwen told her she ordered a wheel chair at the Frankfurt airport not during the flight so Bella made the necessary arrangements. When we boarded the plane they moved Gwen to seat 4-C because her original seat 1-A was broken. Bella had never mentioned the seat was broken and to look with a naked eye it did not look broken. I offered Gwen my seat, but she went to 4-C. Then Bella showed up to apologize to Gwen and in the mean time a young man in mid twenties sat next me in Gwen's supposedly broken seat. When Bella came forward to exit the plane she spoke Russian to the young man and gave him kisses on both cheeks, the European thing. Then another ticket agent showed up and gave the young man same greeting. So I figured they wanted Gwen's seat for him. When we took off and they started to serve drinks and food his tray was broken, and the seat would not tilt back, so the seat was broken and they moved him further back in first class.


Now begins dinner, Get this they put a white table cloth on each tray. Then the heated cloth to refresh you face and clean your hands. Champagne, two small appetizers, filoh dough filled with a veggie and cheese. Next the salad plate with two different fish sushi, an a deviled egg, a slice of cucumber with a cut of Brie and a cherry tomato on top cut in half. A Caesar salad ,next comes the white linen napkin over your lap. I only ate half of my salad and a good thing because the next course was hot cream of mushroom soup. The main course was salmon, with orkra and rice and a cheese sauce. Now I only ate half I was so full. Here comes dessert, pecan pie with fresh fruit around it. A blueberry, a strawberry, a raspberry repeated around the round pie. A cup of black Russian Coffee and a liquor. That was my first three hours of Russian flight six more to go. All the above served on linen, china, glass glasses. they offer you more liquor of which I declined, I could hardly breathe I was so full.

The pictures attached are of a church 2000 years old. It is just the most beautiful building. The Buildings in Germany are so soundly made the last for thousands of years, not 25 yrs like here in the US.
More to come.................