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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]