I 100% agree with you about the plane journey being your sacred time. Literally for ALL the things you never have time to do!
And these are good tips, especially joining a few communities on Facebook etc. I kind of wish I immersed myself fully into Berlin life and travelled less to the UK now but hey, guess at the time my relationship was pretty high up on the priority list ;-)
Yeah I get that. I feel like that a little about Singapore actually.