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AC7683 BOS YUL 1050 1202 CRJ 6F
was
AC7681 BOS YUL 0845 1008 Q30

My flight was cancelled, so AC put me on the next, which
still gave me plenty of time to get lost at the
airport before my next flight.

I dutifully went through the empty connections lane,
where the agent had nothing to do otherwise and jawed
with me for an extended time about nothing in particular,
then informing me that it was he who had to trek over to
the door to let me out, but he couldn't do that for a
while, so sit tight at the exit. The while turned out to
be a quarter hour, during which time he must have checked
every possible database for suspicious and criminal activity
- I half expected to be accosted by swarms of surete
accusing me of lese majeste against Trudeau or Levesque or
somebody.

Eventually he showed up and let me out; no big matter as
the Maple Leaf wasn't going to be open for another two
hours or so. I went for a wander that ended at a sign
saying no passing beyond this point, so I stopped and
parked at an empty gate.

There was a wi-fi signal, and an e-mail appeared from
Lilli: "oooh, sandwiches just walked by." For a little
lady who doesn't eat, she certainly is governed by her
stomach. She was at the domestic lounge and said that I
should be able to conquer all obstacles and meet her there.
So back I went to find that the no passing sign had gone,
and there was unimpeded passage back to the domestic area,
albeit through a construction area. Lilli was not hard to
find, and the club was an okay place to sit a couple hours,
though I arrived just as the heartier lunch offerings
(chili, for example) were being cleared away.

Reentry into the international area was easy. Last year
there had been a guard checking boarding passes: this year,
nothing.

LX  87 YUL ZRH 1655 0620 343 5DG

As before, boarding was more of a Quebecois scrum than a
model of Swiss order. We had thrones in the middle, which
Lilli prefers to the window-aisle combination, my choice.
She got her preference on three of four flights.

Lunch, a tribute to the Valais, was a salty but gamy and
tasty Bundnerfleisch, followed by Walliser Geschnetzeltes,
sliced veal in a mushroom cream sauce, pretty good, with
rice that resembled Uncle Ben's, not so good. Dessert, a
so-called Valaisian rye bread mousse, seemed to me just
plain bizarre.

We were kept in a pleasantly muzzy state by the same wines
on all four flights as long as we chose to stay awake.

Champagne Duval-Leroy nv was the usual lemony thing, but
at one point on the first flight, being bored with it, I
tried the Swiss white on offer:

Les Terrasses Dorees 12 (Jean-Rene Germanier) is mostly
Chasselas and was a bit acidy and Sauvignonish to my taste,
so I quit after one glass and returned to the Champagne.

The reds were

Cornalin Montibeux 12 (Rouvinez), a lightish cherry-plum
fruity thing that put me in mind of Pinot Noir, only not
so nice; and

Ch. Villa Belair 10, a Graves from J.-M. Cazes, so it ought
to be good, only it was seriously mediocre. Lilli mostly
stuck with this; in deference to the nationality of the
flights, I drank mostly the Cornalin, killing the aftertaste
with Remy Martin VSOP.

Service was perhaps more attentive than one would expect
on a redeye, but either way would have been okay.

We landed on time.

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