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8 October 2003
Cathedral & Giralda We overslept, waking around 0800. Perhaps it was due to our room window opening into the courtyard which meant we had no direct sunlight. We had been relatively unaffected by jetlag so far, despite having flown from the opposite side of the globe. We walked to Plaza Alfalfa for a simple breakfast […]
6 October 2003
More sightseeing It was a grey drizzly day and we started today’s exploration on foot, walking to Galeries Lafayette department store. We weren’t shopping but the view from the rooftop is supposed to be quite good. To my surprise the store was quite shabby in parts but very big with a very nice atrium. I […]
5 October 2003
Arc de Triomphe to Eiffel Tower Breakfast at the hotel was nice, consisting of rolls pastries with ham and cheeses. The coffee was nice and there was plenty of hot milk for café au lait. There wasn’t any fruit, but I think that’s because the French are more into their pastries first thing in the […]
4 October 2003
Killing time in London We slept till 0900 today and had a late breakfast at our budget London hotel today. We have a flight from London Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle at 1500 today, purchased at a very cheap price on British Airways. That means we have a few hours to kill before heading […]
3 October 2003
We did a bit of sightseeing in London today. Our first stop was St Paul’s cathedral which we tried to reach on the Circle Line. Getting on the tube heading in the wrong direction, the journey took forever. Once we got there, we realised that they charge GBP6 pp for entrance. It’s quite a new […]
2 October 2003
We woke at 0300 and with the aid of sleeping medication, we slept till 0800. That was a total of 13h30! Stuart Hotel’s continental breakfast was very good and we filled up before heading out. We took the tube to Richmond station where Kim’s parents picked us up, with Kim’s aunt Eileen in the car […]
1 October 2003
I had 1h sleep on this flight, making a total of 3h for the entire journey of about 24h from Auckland to London. Finally, we landed at Heathrow at 1105 and pulled into Terminal 3, a horrible terminal which involved a very long walk to the tube which would take us to our hotel at […]
26 May 2003
We have a night flight back to Auckland tonight, which meant we had plenty of time to kill. After a trip to the supermarket where we bought some fruits, we visited my aunt and uncle. They were both well and in good spirits in their old age. Back in the city, we collected our printed […]
25 May 2003
Mum took us for a Nyonya lunch at a restaurant called Ivin’s. Nyonya (or Peranakan) food is hard to find in New Zealand and parts of Malaysia, so I really appreciated the choice of restaurant. We had otak-otak, beef rendang, chicken curry, ayam tempera and bubor chacha. The tempera was a dry version, different from […]
24 May 2003
We woke at 0500 and were in the courtesy shuttle at 0600 for the short ride to Dubai airport. Check-in was swift and we used up our remaining dirhams before boarding the Emirates B777-300. We departed about 30 mins late due to having to offload the bags for people who were turned away at the […]