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2 November 2021
I woke at 0530 as I seem to be still adapting go the one hour time change after the end of daylight saving. I started my exploration of Larnaca with a walk along its waterfront which led me to the historic centre. The St Lazarus church was free to enter and quite ornate. The Byzantine […]
1 November 2021
Leaving Paphos The hotel buffet breakfast was less today as it was their last day before closing until April. They only had 15 guests last night including myself. My plan was to go across the road soon after for my Rapid Antigen test for entry into Italy. But the swabbing doesn’t open till 0900, so […]
31 October 2021
Nea Paphos For today I had planned to visit Nea Paphos, the city’s main archaeological site, nice and early to avoid the heat. But with end of daylight saving, we had an extra hour in bed, which meant that it would be sunnier by the time I got there. Ahh well. Buffet breakfast at hotel […]
30 October 2021
Moving to Paphos I woke at 0600 after retiring at 2000. Perhaps I’ve conquered my jetlag after three nights? Today I move on to Paphos by bus. Since I was waking early still, I tried for the 0900 bus. I nearly missed it as it had been double-parked and I couldn’t see past the buses […]
29 October 2021
City Wall on the Greek side Having retired around 1930 last night and with it being daytime in New Zealand, my body clock woke me up around 0300. I couldn’t sleep anymore and sat up reading, writing and chatting. After breakfast, I took a walk around the old city’s wall, starting around 0820 at the […]
28 October 2021
Crossing to the Turkish side I had set the alarm for 0630 because if I woke up later, there’s a risk of feeling like death warmed up, due to the time in New Zealand. The hotel buffet breakfast at 0730 was good with the usual selection of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern stuff (eg. tomatoes, cucumber, […]
27 October 2021
Continuing to Dubai We landed at Kuala Lumpur at midnight, from Auckland, and had a 1h35 turnaround before continuing to Dubai. Emirates don’t appear to have traffic rights for bringing passengers from Auckland to KL. We remained on board during cleaning, catering, security and refuel, after which the joining passengers boarded. Airlines talk about the […]
26 October 2021
On edge at check-in A week after making my bookings, the time has come for me to depart. This is very unlike the old style of travel when I may have made bookings up to 14 months in advance on AirAsia. The 1810 departure on Emirates meant that I had time to fit in a […]
19 October 2021
A journey born out of spite, as the world learns to live with Covid-19 I didn’t get to see Mum before she passed away a month ago and also missed her funeral. I do still want to get back to my hometown Kuching but airfares are ridiculously high. I would have paid the high price […]
27 September 2021
Ridiculously high airfares I had been wanting to go see Mum in Malaysian Borneo for a while now. But the need to do hotel quarantine there and also upon return to New Zealand was a deterrent. Apart from that, it seemed best to delay the trip until her helper finishes up in December and I’d […]