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16 November 2007
Kim and I spent the morning in Hong Kong looking for his model car shops. Nothing opens till about 1100 so it was fruitless. After a nice buffet lunch at his hotel, I left some of my luggage at the hotel reception and made my way to the airport for my 1 hour plus flight […]
15 November 2007
Our flight arrived into Hong Kong slightly after 0600 and it was about 0800 by the time we go to the Novotel in Wanchai. We showered and slept till 1100 when I rang Rosalind, a friend from school for our catch-up arrangements. Rosalind and another school friend, Mary turned up and we walked a few […]
14 November 2007
Tonight I depart for Hong Kong to begin two new adventures. The first in China and the second in Ethiopia. The time in between would be spent with family in Kuching, Malaysian Borneo and then Sana’a, Yemen. Kim was working on the flight tonight to Hong Kong. I was well-looked after in my flat-bed.
9 November 2007
I don’t cook very often … but on Labour Weekend I cooked three nights in a row. That’s like three months worth of cooking in one hit! Posted by Alex Chan on Friday, November 9, 2007
1 September 2007
I landed back in Auckland at 0515 on Saturday 1 September after short but wonderful trip around France. I was grateful to have been able to take time off my contract job for this trip.
30 August 2007
My flight from London landed in Los Angeles at 1930. I have a two hour transit here for the continuing aircraft to Auckland but the USA has no concept of transit without actually entering the country, as seen in most Asian airports. And despite being on standby, I managed to get on the continuing journey […]
30 August 2007
Above: Toulouse is also known as the Pink City because of its brick buildings. Today I make my way back to Auckland alone, while Kim makes his homecoming three days afterwards with his parents. The reason for this is that he’s spending a couple of days at a car event at Goodwood in southern England. […]
29 August 2007
From our base in Toulouse, we had the day for tripping around the area. We chose to drive out to Carcassonne, over an hour outside the city. We started our drive with a look through the fence of the Airbus factory. Having captured no worthwhile photos yesterday, we felt compelled to swing past the factory […]
28 August 2007
Condom I never thought I’d see Catholicism and contraception come together! But it kinda did at the pretty little town of Condom, about an hour from Marmande, which had the Cathedral at its centre. By the way, the French call the rubber thingey preservatif instead of condom, and there is no relationship between the name […]
27 August 2007
Lunch by the Atlantic From Nantes, we needed to head south to Toulouse by tomorrow, which was over 5h away. More with rest and sightseeing stops. Because our pre-booked accommodation in Toulouse starts only from tomorrow night, we decided to play it by ear and see where we end up for the night. Less than […]