As I mentioned in my first blog entry..."In the beginning were the plans..." my wife, Felicity & I had purchased business class round the world tickets for our base journey, but we are backpackers nonetheless. For some, backpacks and business class don't mix and so it seemed with our Swiss Check-in lady at Zurich airport on 9th July 2010, who told us we had to go a get our own plastic carrying boxes from a desk down the check-in hall if we were going to check-in backpacks. It seems like in her mind we'd failed the business class suitability test. Zurich Airport is a great airport - regularly voted the best in Europe - but abandon all hope (of getting to a lounge) all ye who are flying to the USA. We never realised that the
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