Articles from this Category
19 May 2003
Leaving Iran We woke at 0445 as we have a morning flight from Esfahan to Tehran to connect on to Dubai. Kim had a bad night sleep and had been fighting a cold. We collected our passports at reception and set off for the airport at 0530, arriving there at 0600. It was another half […]
1 May 2003
Singapore’s Changi airport is so efficient that our bags were nearly disappearing having done one circuit of the conveyor when we got there. We were outside within minutes. We went from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 to the Emirates Airlines office to collect our onward ticket to Colombo and Tehran. This was for our departure […]
1 May 2003
Kim’s Mum took us to the airport for our 1155 Air New Zealand flight to Singapore. Check-in was slow with only two counters open until a third opened two hours prior to departure. The flight was pleasant with the crew led by Tina, a former travel agent from Queenstown. I had met her working in […]
4 November 2002
Leaving Chiang Mai We had to wake at 0500 today for our 0700 flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. We had enough time for a light breakfast of fish congee, bacon and papaya. The crew for our flight was still eating as we left at 0605. At check-in we were given “CIQ” (Customs Immigration Quarantine) […]