Your first flight.

After all the hard work to get your passport sorted, we waste no time to plan your visit to your 90 year old great grand mother Delia in Milan. We get time booked off and flights booked for the weekend of 4 March and for now the plan is for Heino to stay for a long weekend and you and your Mom to stay for a short week till Thursday 9th March. At the  end of this week your Nonno Gianfranco will travel back with your mom as traveling with a young baby and luggage is definitely a two-person job!

Also, this short trip will be a very important test run for the much longer journey to Namibia!

 

The flight is with Alitalia from Heathrow Airport and we get a very early tube to Heathrow to do all the check in procedures with plenty of spare time. Everything goes smoothly and once past the security checks it is time for a breakfast and a feed for you before your flight. Luckily we can keep the pram/buggy up until we enter the plane and before we know it we are in our seats with all the hostesses cooing and oohing over you!

The flight is surprisingly easy. There is a very short cry at the beginning of take off, but after this it is back to sleep with no further problems. We've heard scary stories of how babies have ear pain due to different pressures, but thankfully there is no sign of this.
All in all we are very pleased with how the flight went and as we go through the arrivals doors your Nonno Gianfranco is there waiting for us and your first visit to Italy can begin!