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15 June 2010
We arrived back in Auckland early in the morning. It had been an awesome trip combining great landscape, too much food and good entertainment. I enjoyed myself tremendously even though it was a lifestyle that I wasn’t accustomed to. Having said that, I’d take adventure over this any day … my next trip will be […]
2 June 2010
We turned up at Auckland airport to check-in armed with a contingency plan in case the flight at 2000 to Vancouver was full. Fortunately there were seats available and we were issued with boarding passes available. We weren’t seated together because the remaining seats on the flight were spread through the aircraft. No complaints!
28 October 2009
Above: This is one month’s harvest from Nyoman. We landed back in Auckland early in the morning. We returned to the house to find a bumper harvest from our cat Nyoman. Marie (my friend, schoolmate and travel companion … turned catsitter and housesitter) had been harvesting the hair from the cat each time she was […]
23 October 2009
We arrived at Kuala Lumpur, the Big Smoke, on AirAsia departing at 1955. During the flight, I was standing in the front of the cabin waiting for the loo … so I looked back and saw two of the flight attendants doing the sale of merchandise (t-shirts, caps, toys etc). One crew member was helping […]
7 October 2009
Today we have an early start departing at 0650 flying Perth – Kuala Lumpur, self-connecting to hometown Kuching with a layover of 3h50 which gives us a little bit of buffer in case of delay. That would see us arriving into Kuching at 1805. The fare from Perth to Kuala Lumpur was AUD65 return plus […]
5 October 2009
I left for Perth on my own today as Kim was staying behind for another day to ensure his mother was well enough before joining me. It was a pleasant daylight flight leaving at 1425 and arriving at 1710.
29 September 2009
Despite some murmurs of aircraft weight issues, I managed to get on my standby flight home to Auckland. With the International Deadline, I arrived two days later.
22 September 2009
I flew out of Charles de Gaulle for Heathrow today, to meet up with Kim before boarding our flight together to Los Angeles. While I’m not usually a movie person on flights, I watched 5 TV programmes this time. Four of these were episodes of “Around the world in 80 trades”. This follows the journey […]
3 September 2009
We had a stressful departure as Kim had bought a Navman GPS for driving around the UK … after loading the UK/Europe maps it stopped working. Fortunately we live closed to the Navman warehouse and they opened up after hours so he could swap the unit out. It is funny that once things like that […]
26 July 2009
Above: Great Barrier Reef flying from Cairns. Flying on standby can be nerve-wrecking, especially when flights are busy and don’t run every day. We returned the rental car at Cairns airport. We were pleased to have boarding passes issued to us for the 1130 flight, not minding that we were stuck at the tail of […]