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Leaving home

This trip centred around going to the UK to attend my nephew’s wedding. I managed to snap up a cheap Air NZ fare to Bali flying during the first week of their seasonal operations which was highly discounted; I qualified for a further discount through my partner who works at the airline. Woohoo! It made […]

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Getting interrogated by the authorities

I arrived in Auckland. The immigration officer (actually it is now done by customs staff on immigration’s behalf), looked at my arrival form and noticed that I had been to Sudan. He wrote a capital “T” on it and circled it. After collecting my luggage, I was intercepted by another officer and sent to another […]

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More urban pleasures of Hong Kong

I had seen a phone that seemed perfect for me yesterday for HKD1300 (NZD200). I needed to do some research on it and it shows up as a pretty high spec quad core model. Instead of going all the way back into Hong Kong, we headed to Kwai Fong where we had made purchases before. […]

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Urban pleasures of Hong Kong

I had a short connection in Istanbul. The meals on the flight to Hong Kong were even better than the previous. I couldn’t believe Turkish Airlines had unlimited free wifi for all on board, except for the last couple of hours over Chinese airspace where it wasn’t permitted. We landed an hour earlier due to strong […]

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Back to KL again

After a late breakfast, Peter and Shukri dropped me off at Melaka Sentral.  It was 1015 and I managed to get a bus that was just about to leave at 1030.  The journey was much faster today, arriving at Bandar Tasik Selatan’s bus terminal 1215. I trained back to the hotel to unload and grabbed […]

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Staying with Friends in the Historic City

Friends Peter and Shukri had invited me to visit and stay with them in Melaka.  I had only been there about 20 months ago, so it will be a nice relaxing stay without having the pressures of trying to squeeze in all the historic sights. My hotel was really handy being on the same train […]

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At the Sudanese Embassy (Take 2)

I arrived at the Sudanese Embassy on-the-dot at 0930 and walked to the back of the building to find the door closed.  The receptionist wasn’t in side; in fact there was no one in there.  I waited for about 15 minutes before someone opened the door. After a brief wait, Mr Sabri turned up and […]

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Back to KL

With a 1430 departure from Kuching to KL, I had a leisurely morning getting ready and tidying up after myself at my apartment.  My parents dropped me off at the airport and it was an uneventful trip to KL and then to the Tune Hotel in Downtown. I met up with an old school friend […]

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Family Time

Today I fly off to Kuching for a week to spend time with family.  It is a 1645 departure.  With an 1100 check-out from the Tune hotel (most shops don’t open till then), there isn’t much time to do anything before heading out to the airport. Just laze around in bed and finish up my […]

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At the Sudanese Embassy

I had 4h30 minutes of solid sleep and woke up before 0700. Being at the tail end of the time zone, it was still pitch black outside. I made up some milk-and-muesli for breakfast before hopping on the train to Ampang for the Sudanese embassy. While I can get a visa-on-arrival at Khartoum, there is […]

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