Woke to a glorious morning with sun streaming through the skylight at 7am and had a proper look at the steading in daylight. The steading dates from around 1869, although its exact construction date is unknown, and was restored in 2011 as a holiday rental. It sits in isolation from the village but abuts a neighbouring farm and is surrounded by rolling hills and expansive meadows full of sheep and cattle. (I keep telling them to run away and escape now because ...

Considering my doubts about the seating on the A380 I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was, in fact, the perfect spot (other than having to sit next to a complete stranger in the window seat). The seats were roomy and the cabin spacious plus the spot next to the toilet gave us a nice wide aisle. As a bonus there wasn't the anticipated stream of people to use the loo either. The A380 is very quiet so you don't have that constant white noise assault on the ...

The day has finally arrived and in 16 hours we will be leaving Perth for the first leg of our flight to Glasgow; a long and dreary 11 and a bit hours to Dubai. In spite of the excitement of the trip this is never a welcome part of the journey as it's a long, boring, night trip and sleeping is never easy no matter how tired you are. To make matters worse the seats we were allocated (the original seats I chose were reallocated by Emirates when the plane was changed...