15 Minutes of fame - with Subtitles (名声の15 分 and 15 Minuten Ruhm)

So this is going to sound JUST a touch geeky.... but as we were (sort of..) in the area and it was the first visit from the new A380 to Dulles, we thought a quick trip to the airport would be in order.

Dulles (and Airbus and Lufthansa) didn't exactly make it easy - not publishing the arrival time ("sometime after 9" was the best we could find). Eventually I found that the plane would be arriving just after EIGHT (55 minutes away and 50 minutes drive away).

Anyway, long story short - drove to Airport, went up to the top of the car parking (with stories to Lisa about "this is where the Snowy Owl was.."), park, got out, one BIG plane immediately landed right on the runway next to us.

It's certainly an impressive machine and there was a small crowd had gathered to take a look.

Which brings me to our subtitles.... There were a couple of Television crews there.

First we were approached by the Japanese crew (TV 乗組員) which Lisa neatly sidestepped and directed them to me (:O - my only previous experience of "being on the telly" was the ultimately edited-out Blue Peter session in 1967).

So we were laughing about that and returning to the car when the German TV crew invited me ("and zee whole family!") to be interviewed.


After all those nice words I think we're owed a tour (I wish!)




For our fellow travellers who like big planes here's an impressive Airbus video - ahhhhh one day :)