Fortunately, Hao Desheng's overseas tourist visas for Mengdu and Liping are effective on October 5.

The date of Mengdu and Liping's trip abroad is also October 5.

According to the travel plan determined before marriage, Mengdu and Liping's first overseas travel destination is the seven countries of Western Europe;

After returning from Western Europe, I will travel to the United States.

The departure point for Western Europe is Pudong International Airport in Shanghai.

The airport we arrived at was Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France.

After two days of unbridled newlywed life, on the morning of October 4, Mengdu and Liping took a high-speed train from the provincial capital to Shanghai, China's largest metropolis.

Mengdu and Liping joined a group to travel abroad.

The overseas tour group they participated in was the "Golden Autumn October Tour Group to Western Europe" organized by Dahua Youth Travel Agency.

All the expenses of traveling abroad are all at once.

During the tour, all affairs such as eating, drinking, lazing and sleeping are handled by the travel agency.

The members of the tour group, when they go abroad, only need to follow the small pennant of the tour guide closely and not fall behind, and act with the group step by step.

This kind of travel abroad is not only worry-free, but also more trouble-free, but it costs more money.

That night, Liping and Mengdu arrived in Shanghai by high-speed train, and then used the "Didi Taxi" software to make an appointment for a taxi, went straight to Pudong from Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station, and reported to the person in charge of the tour group on time in a four-star hotel in Lujiazui.

After listening to the person in charge of the team explaining the precautions for traveling abroad, and receiving the request to hand over the passport of the visa, which was kept by the person in charge of the team, they took the elevator to the 28th floor of the hotel and entered a neat and clean standard room to rest.

There was no word that night.

Early in the morning of the next day, all the members of the tour group took a collective ride at the gate of the hotel and arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport before eight o'clock.

After verification, check-in and security, the tour group rested in the departure hall for more than half an hour.

Taking advantage of this gap, the tour group leader once again explained to all the tour group members:

After the tour group arrives in Paris, the airport will be picked up by a French ground tour guide, who will be responsible for all the food, accommodation and transportation of the tour group in Western Europe.

The tour leader also repeatedly emphasized that after the tour group arrives in Western Europe, all members must obey the arrangements of the tour guide, must not violate the laws and regulations of the country they visit, must not act without authorization, cannot make random demands, must not be civilized and polite, can not talk with people they do not know, especially foreign guests, and must not leave the team and abscond illegally!

What comes down to a sentence:

I hope that every member of the tour group, throughout the travel itinerary, must obey the tour guide, be civilized and polite, act collectively, abide by the law, and go home safely!

After listening to the repeated explanations of the team leader's mother-in-law and mother-in-law, the tour group began to line up to board the flight to Paris.

At half past nine o'clock in the morning Beijing time, the plane took off on time.

The plane on which Mengdu and Liping participated in the tour group to Western Europe today was an international flight for which Air France was a flight attendant.

The aircraft is a French-made Airbus 380 A.

The cabin is huge, and when you board the plane, you can see that there are three longitudinal rows of passenger seats.

Among them, the middle row is the widest, with seats in a row of four;

It is placed side by side with the middle row and a row of equal width on the left and right sides, which can seat three people.

That is, adding up the seats in the three rows, each row can seat ten passengers.

There are 45 rows of economy class seats in the cabin.

In front of the economy class, an additional three rows of VIP cabins are installed.

The VIP cabin is also designed and manufactured in three rows, with a total of three rows.

However, the VIP cabin is only equipped with two seats per row, which is very spacious;

In other words, VIP cabins can only be sold to eighteen VIPs.

In addition, in the back row of economy class, the seats near the rear of the aircraft are slightly narrower, and there are only eight seats in each row.

The passenger seats on the entire plane can accommodate more than 420 passengers in total, which can be called the giant of passenger aircraft!

In each seat of the cabin, a small blanket folded in a square shape is neatly placed.

At the same time, in the cloth bag in the backrest of each seat, in addition to the "Boarding Instructions" and a thick hardcover promotional material, there is also a pair of pullover headphones for passengers.

This pair of pull-on headphones can be plugged into the socket on the side of the seat armrest, and you can listen to TV or music programs on the airliner at your choice, and the volume can also be adjusted at will.

The reason why this kind of pull-on headset is configured for passengers is that there are so many passengers on the plane that it is "difficult to adjust":

Some passengers may like to watch TV, some passengers like to listen to music, some passengers like to read, and some passengers may like to doze off;

In order to take care of the hobbies and needs of various passengers as much as possible, on this kind of super-large aircraft, when the TV screen plays the program, only the picture is played, not the sound.

If passengers want to watch TV, they only need to adjust the button on the socket to the TV broadcast position, and they can hear all kinds of sounds in the TV;

If you don't want to watch TV and just want to listen to music, it's simple. Passengers only need to adjust the button on the side of the seat armrest to the music position indicator arrow, and beautiful Western music will be played in the earphones.

Moreover, on the indicator arrow of the music function, there are more than a dozen channels and more than a dozen kinds of music, and passengers can freely choose their favorite music.

Today's weather is particularly fine, flying on a plane at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, looking into the distance:

You can see that the deep sky is blue and boundless;

The round sun, in the far reaches of space, radiates a dazzling golden light;

Those white and light clouds floating in the sky, under the illumination of the sun, appear more calm and bright, quiet and vast.

On both sides of the wings, one or two silver planes can occasionally be seen, under the golden white sun, on the channel 10,000 meters away, and Mengdu and Liping are "passing by" the "Airbus 380A" they are riding.

From afar, those planes that "pass by" are only the size of a palm, just like children's toy airplanes.

If you look down from the cabin window, it's a different view:

Boundless fields, winding rivers, rolling mountains, and primeval forests on the ground......

In short, thousands of mountains and rivers on the earth, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, all in sight!

Today, Mengdu and Liping's seats happen to be arranged next to the window on the starboard side of the plane.

So, they can enjoy the drinks and food delivered by the cabin crew while watching the scenery from the sky and the earth along the way.

When the plane flies in the domestic airspace, the route passes through Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong, and patches of green mountains, rivers and lakes and golden farmland can be seen on the ground.

When entering Hebei and passing through Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang, the scene presented to people's eyes gradually began to evolve, evolving into a stretch of loess slopes and the boundless Gobi Desert;

Further on, the plane entered the airspace of Russia, and the scenery that greeted the passengers' eyes gradually evolved into green mountains, euphemistic rivers, and huge and vast lakes.

Just as the plane entered Russian airspace, the cabin attendants began to provide free lunches to passengers.

Air France's cabin attendants are significantly different from those on Chinese airliners!

The cabin attendants in France are not like the flight attendants on Chinese airliners, they are all young and beautiful girls, or chic and handsome young men.

When the Air France flight attendants walked neatly into the cabin with a neat white apron on their chests, the passengers were surprised to find:

Among these flight attendants, several were men in the prime of life with gray temples and about fifty years old;

There are also a few middle-aged women in their forties, or close to forty, who can also be called "aunts" or "aunts".

What particularly surprised Mengdu and Liping was that among the several female flight attendants, there were actually dark-skinned black women!

Although they are not young, these flight attendants, when providing services to passengers, are energetic and conscientious.

It can be seen completely from the actions and attitudes:

They are familiar with the business and move quickly!