I'm tall but not exceptionally so. When I fly, I do like to relax and stretch my legs out under the seat in front. I also like a window seat (and preferably one with a view of more than just the wing!).

A year or two ago, airlines went through a phase of putting a small box under the window seat, just inboard of the window-side seat support. That meant I could only stretch one leg out in front of me - there wasn't room to stretch two! Try sitting like that - no-one would call it relaxing or even comfortable, especially for more than just a few minutes.

I haven't experienced that for a while, but on an Air Canada 777 (seat 32K, if you wish to avoid it!) there was an even bigger box. This meant one could only stretch ones legs out to a limited extent - and on a nine and a half hour flight from London to Vancouver, I did not appreciate this!

I'm not sure what was in the box. I suspect it was the in-flight entertainment, or it could be related to the fact that seat 31K was by the emergency exit.

Whatever it was, it wasn't very comfortable!

I don't think it's odd or even unusual to want to stretch my legs out. And my only use of the in-flight entertainment (IFE) is the map! So I feel really cheated if the IFE infringes on my leg-room!

Don't designers of aircraft interiors ever ride in them? If so, what shape are they?

When you arrive at Vancouver International Airport by air, you are greeted by waterfalls, trees, First Nations art and gleaming spotlessly clean marble. And that's while you are still in the terminal, before you reach baggage reclaim.

The signage is impeccable and incredibly multi-lingual - reflecting the city's impressive diversity.

It's efficient too.

On my travels today, I glanced at the departure screens and saw that the 10:00 to Toronto was at gate C50: I checked again closer to the gate and as I was doing this, one of the airport's help team approached me - "Can I help you find your gate, sir?". Just as well - it turned out that I was heading for Westjet's 10:00 to Toronto and not Air Canada's! My gate was C45. Now I would of course have found that out at some point, but better sooner than later!

Walking around the airport after a meeting there the previous day, I'd been impressed by the toilets. The entrance walls are covered with highly decorative coloured ceramic tiles forming a distinctive pattern. Inside, the pattern is repeated on other vertical surfaces. Today, as I went to gate C45, I used different toilets - and they had a different but equally beautiful pattern of coloured ceramic tiles on the walls.

Everything - everything - looked clean, neat, tidy, friendly. Is Vancouver the world's most beautiful airport?