{"id":1693,"date":"2012-10-15T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2012-10-14T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T14:47:00","slug":"in-sickness-in-health-or-qantas-pyjama-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/10\/in-sickness-in-health-or-qantas-pyjama-power\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sickness &#038; In Health (Or: Qantas Pyjama Power!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a strange thing: pretty much ever since James and I got engaged, we&#8217;ve both been ill. Not anything life threatening of course, just a string of various low level traveler maladies that have had us both (a) feeling distinctly under the weather and (b) being about as far from glamorous as it&#8217;s possible for a newly engaged couple to be. Frankly I&#8217;m rather relieved the question has already been popped and cannot be un-popped\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Being sick on the road, particularly in relatively underdeveloped countries, leads to some deep, philosophical thoughts allowing us, after much debate, to come up with the following exhaustive definition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luxury&#8221; is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A room warm enough to take off at least one of your five layers in. Failing that, plenty of bedclothes<\/li>\n<li>With a double bed large enough for both of us, with a real mattress<\/li>\n<li>Sheets on said bed. If you&#8217;re feeling particularly kind, make them clean sheets<\/li>\n<li>A toilet. Which flushes. In a bathroom which is all our very own<\/li>\n<li>Toilet paper. Of the non Soviet variety (it&#8217;s definitely eco-friendly, put it that way)<\/li>\n<li>And last but not least (did I mention we weren&#8217;t well), the ability to dispose of said toilet paper in the toilet without inadvertently flooding half of Central Asia&#8217;s sewage systems (no, we haven&#8217;t\u2026.yet\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suffice to say that, for the moment at least, we are not living in luxury. That&#8217;s ok though, because we have a secret weapon (you thought I was going to say &#8220;each other&#8221;, didn&#8217;t you?).<\/p>\n<p>We have our Qantas pyjamas.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, ladies and gentlemen. When times get tough, the tough get into their Qantas pyjamas. These are a rather nice cotton jersey affair in a muted mud brown colour \u2013 VERY tasteful &#8211; which started out life as rather high class numbers, provided solely to Qantas&#8217; first class passengers for their extra snuggly comfort. They have subsequently suffered something of a fall from grace: nowadays, we use them basically as shields against all unpleasantness. To expound:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bed has no sheets? No problem \u2013 Qantas pyjamas will shield you from contact with stray foreign body hair<\/li>\n<li>Bed has sheets but of questionable provenance and cleanliness? Qantas pyjamas will protect you from venereal disease<\/li>\n<li>Room is glacial, bed has one thin coverlet? Qantas pyjamas are guaranteed to prevent hypothermia<\/li>\n<li>Frequent visitor to the shared toilet? Qantas pyjamas ensure you make that repeated trip in style<\/li>\n<li>Fiance starting to look somewhat askance at your pale, tired face? Qantas pyjamas make you look both cute and (I&#8217;m quietly confident in this) pretty darn SEXY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank God we&#8217;ve got them. You see the whole &#8220;sickness and health&#8221; lark doesn&#8217;t actually kick in until the wedding bells have rung. We&#8217;re not worried though.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got Qantas Pyjama Power!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/101412_1441_InSicknessI1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a strange thing: pretty much ever since James and I got engaged, we&#8217;ve both been ill. Not anything life threatening of course, just a string of various low level traveler maladies that have had us both (a) feeling distinctly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/10\/in-sickness-in-health-or-qantas-pyjama-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}