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It had been awhile since any updates to the whole I'm Huge category. This was mostly due to the fact that my life in US America is built more to my large requirements. Now that I'm back in The Europe, I'm again reminded of my ogre-ocity.       Last year, I wrote up a bit about how, I'm Huge on Vueling. Well, I gotta tell you that Vueling was dreamy compared to trying to fold my 193cm of height in to the seats on the Iberia flight I took form London to Madrid. While Vueling designs their seat rows on certain flights to not accommodate those over 175cm in height, I think that Iberia must build for around 150cm. I was screwed in those seats and then of course when the turdle in front of me reclined his seat, I was just completely out of luck.       It's true it was a short flight, but it was still two hours of me doing my best impersonation of an accordion. Just another airline to cross off my me-so-lanky list...

Flying is never the greatest of experiences for me. Even on the best of flights, the fact that I'm 193cm tall makes just about anything short of Business and First Class a painful experience. Given that unless I'm bumped up a class as I was last year, I am always stuck in Economy Class which is the only one I can afford.       It's a pretty standard thing really. I get in to my seat and my knees are almost touching the seat in front of me. Once my frontwards friend goes in to recline, then my knees are getting crushed. It's never really comfortable, but I just deal with it, because thems the breaks.       Then I flew on Vueling which is a Spanish budget airline. I suddenly learned the price of a cheap seat. Without the frontward seat even being in recline, my knees were jammed in to the seat back that made me count the minutes until landing in Barcelona. As I looked around whilst experiencing ever painful moment we were on the flight, I realized that Spaniards are indeed much shorter than me on average and people were fitting in to these seats a whole lot better than I was. In fact, they looked quite normal, only rubbing in the fact that I'm a large man in a world much smaller than me. Of course, it doesn't help that Vueling takes an Airbus that other airlines put 26 rows in to and use the space "better" by putting in 30 making it the case that anyone over 175cm can't fit in to the seats properly. Goody...       But enough about planes, I'm off to find some table corners to bump in to!

I wanted to bring this up, since it's been awhile since I've been in a place; just over a year in fact. I've just now had to deal with all of the liquid restrictions that have plagued not just the US, but also European flights. These suck a great deal and really are just a bunch of crap to get you to buy more stuff after security check in. I mean really, this has all been debunked. The end result though is that there is a lot less baggage in the cabin. It's kinda weird. I remember trying to cram my backpack (which was all I used to bring) in to the overhead bins and having a lot of problems, since people would bring mountains of stuff with them. But, all that has changed. Even kids backpacking through Europe have to check their bags now because of these restrictions. The amount of space this has provided is amazing. I wish there was something that I could do with it, but there it sits, above my head, empty. At least my laptop and camera have plenty of breathing room now and won't get crushed by any Gucci purchases...