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5 March 2014
I woke at 0545 and stayed in bed till about 0730. There was no point getting out of bed too early as the Nova Airways office at the airport didn’t open till 0930. I walked there and when I tried to pay, they said that it wasn’t possible for me to go on Saturday anymore. […]
4 March 2014
Arriving in Khartoum Parts of the 11h wait at Riyadh dragged on. I tried keeping myself occupied and it did help. I had some really sleepy moments but became more awake in time for my 0540 flight to Khartoum. Once again, Saudia fed me well on the 3h flight. I arrived into a cloudy Khartoum […]
3 March 2014
Leaving KL Things couldn’t have been better with an 1100 checkout from the hotel and a 1500 departure. That’s until I tried hailing a taxi outside the hotel in gridlock traffic at 1100 in competition with a couple of other people. I gave up and climbed up the ladder to the skybridge to get to […]
14 January 2014
As our departure to Auckland was 1920 in the evening, we didn’t need to leave the city till 1530. That meant we had time for picking up a few bargains from the shops around Wan Chai and having a long massage. We didn’t set out to buy anything but there are too many quality items […]
12 January 2014
This morning, we had better luck with taxis getting the Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base, which was in the south side of Harbin city. The ride took about 45 minutes and upon reaching there, we decided to get the taxi driver to wait and keep the meter running; it wasn’t the kind of place we […]
11 January 2014
Mark arrived from Beijing last night after a 2 hour delay. We only bad a brief chat then, so I had a better catch up with him over breakfast. We had planned on going to the Siberian Tiger Park and there was no reason to change the plan. The hotel taxi drivers were around and […]
10 January 2014
As if to repeat yesterday morning, we explored our neighbourhood to start off the day. We found the old Jewish area where Jews from Russia and Europe settled to escape persecution. We didn’t have many things we wanted to do today, as we planned on saving some activities for when Mark (a friend living in […]
9 January 2014
The sun rose around 0700 but we didn’t rush to get out of bed. After a simple hotel buffet breakfast, we wandered around the old part of Harbin a little. The weather was cold, clear and crisp. We found the walking street which was only 2 streets away. What we needed was a scarf and […]
8 January 2014
Kim, being on NZ time woke up about 0400. As we had retired about 2200 last night, I more-or-less had enough sleep too. We chatted and got ready around 0600 and left the hotel at 0645 to find the E21 bus just outside the hotel; perfect timing! We arrived at the airport just less than […]
30 December 2013
There are a few hot springs around Kuching. Richard and Habibah invited me to join them on a trip to the Panchor Dayak one about an hour out of town. But as we’re on the far side of town, and due to flooding on the roads causing bad jams, it took us about 2 hours. […]