I woke up at 0600 after 8h solid sleep. With the gloomy weather, my plan to go for a hike on Lamma Island was scrapped. That meant I could do everything in slow motion today and didn’t leave the room till around 1000. Actually there isn’t much point going out early here as very little […]

In Hong Kong, we were lucky to pull into a gate very near to immigration. I do dislike the airports multiple escalators to get down/up the trains that take you to/from the gates. Immigration queue was long but fast-moving. I took the A11 bus to Causeway Bay and hopped off for my short walk to […]

The highlight of this trip is to see the crucifixions near Manila on Good Friday. While this had always been an idea, I decided to make it happen when Air New Zealand announced flights to Manila. Eventually, the proposed service quietly disappeared into the ether. But I decided to continue with the idea when Qantas […]

We landed into Gold Coast about 25 minutes late despite leaving KL only about 10 minutes late.  Perhaps we tried to avoid some turbulence.  The transit was done in the one hour timeframe except we lost a passenger.  While we were retrieving and offloading her luggage, she turned up.  Poor little old lady; bless her. […]

Above:  Peeling my mango like a banana, for breakfast. I finished my last mango this morning, opting to peel it like a banana. It was juicy and I had to eat it over the sink. Muesli followed later after I packed my stuff away for the last leg home. Checkout was 1100 so I went […]

For the second leg from Gold Coast to Kuala Lumpur, I ate my meal and took a pill and slept till about an hour before landing. It was over 3h of waiting before the first flight of the day to Kuching so I had some breakfast of Assam Laksa, knowing full well I’d have a […]

This trip starts with another one of my regular visits to family in hometown Kuching, but it will be more special as I’ll spend Chinese New Year there with them.  And on the way back, I’ll do a detour to Pulau Natuna, an island in the South China Sea that is now part of Indonesia.  […]

I was getting tired after midnight and lay down in the check-in area.  I dozed for an hour before waking up, as the check-in counters were being prepared for opening. I got a boarding pass for my flight back to Auckland immediately.  It has been a good trip with all going smoothly until the little […]