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19 November 2018
My flight from Singapore to Bangkok Don Mueang departs at 1500. My aunt needed to go to the hospital for an appointment leaving the apartment at 0930. It was easy for me to leave the house with them. I pretended that my flight was 1300 and it was perfect for me. Getting a taxi from […]
17 November 2018
I had a relatively early start from the apartment to get to the airport for the 0950 flight to Singapore. Being a weekend, I was being cautious in case it was difficult to get a Grab car. But it was all too easy and I ended up having an hour to kill landside before going […]
8 November 2018
I woke around 0630, way before my alarm at 0800. I had an email from AirAsia confirming that my late May 2019 super-cheap flight from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur had been cancelled due to route withdrawal. I worked through some options and I wasn’t going to be too adversely affected as I have an industry […]
6 November 2018
It is late spring in New Zealand and the weather is a mix of cold and warm days. It’s not so bad that I’d want to go away for a month. I had booked this trip a year ago when November was horrid. I really wish I wasn’t going. Nagaland seemed like a good idea […]
5 October 2018
We woke at 0540 after a slightly restless sleep. I’m not good with sleep before an early flight. It didn’t help that the bed wasn’t the most comfy, with plastic sheeting underneath the sheets. At check-out the receptionist very kindly offered to summon a Grab car for me as taxis have a surcharge before 0700. […]
4 October 2018
My early wake-ups at 0640 for the last three days put me in good position for a similar wake-up time in order to get to Denpasar airport for our 1325 flight. We summoned a Grab vehicle around 0830 when the streets were quiet but when the vehicle arrived, a taxi tout had appeared and told […]
19 September 2018
Leaving Kuching With a 1050 departure to Kuala Lumpur, connecting to Bali, we left our apartment around 0815. Traffic was bad and Wayz directed our Grab driver through some rather unusual routes. We got to the airport around 2h prior to departure. Kim’s bag was tagged all the way to Bali and for such connections, […]
29 August 2018
I didn’t get any sleep on the flight to Singapore. I had started to take pride in how well I’ve slept on flights recently but this time the sleeping pill didn’t quite work. Perhaps my single economy class seat wasn’t reclined enough and had the feel of sliding down a little. It’s fortunate though that I […]
28 August 2018
With a 2355 departure for Singapore, I took my time checking in at the kiosk around 2115 and dropping off my bag. While I normally travel with a cabin bag weighing 7kg including laptop, this time I had a checked-in bag weighing 23.2kg (the limit is 23kg for this flight). It was loaded with cheeses, […]
15 August 2018
Having left Saigon on time, I was surprised we landed in Auckland around 30 minutes late. With no luggage I was out in no time but had to wait for Kim who was expecting that I’d endure a bit more processing. That concludes a cheap little break. The total cost of airfare upgrade, taxes, hotel […]