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2 June 2012
After a good night sleep I felt like new again. I thought it would be a good idea to but the tickets for the bus tomorrow to Wuyuan. I did this at Shanghai South Long Distance Bus & Railway Station. It was all very painless except travelling by metro and foot takes forever as distances […]
1 June 2012
Sleepless flight We had the weirdest and shallowest take off out of Auckland. We seemed to hover over the lights of South Auckland and it took quite a while before we were away from suburbia. This must have been the Boeing 777 that thought it was an propeller aircraft (or an Airbus A340). I had […]
31 May 2012
Dreams to plans to reality The seed of this complex trip was the need to use up my Emirates’ frequent flyer points which were expiring (again). I had enough to take me from East Asia to the weirdest and most wonderful dream destinations in West Asia and Africa, like Sudan, Pakistan or Seychelles. After plenty […]
26 May 2012
In 1998 on my first-ever flight to China, I found a menu for the return flight which featured red bean cheese cake. … Posted by Alex Chan on Sunday, May 20, 2012
8 November 2011
Our AirAsia X flight landed in Christchurch around 1500. We were home in New Zealand but not quiet home home. We had another flight departing at 1730 before we would be truly home in Auckland at 1850 . We had booked ourselves firm tickets for the domestic flight rather than standby. Of course, the downside […]
7 November 2011
We left Kuching at 1615 for Kuala Lumpur. Arriving at 1755 we had a very safe “self-connect” waiting time till our ridiculously cheap non-stop flight to Christchurch at 2340.
30 October 2011
Above: The green countryside before arriving into Bandung. Rather than fly out of Jakarta, we thought it would be different to fly out of Bandung to KL/Kuching. We’d save a little on lower departure taxes out of a regional airport … and the distance from Jakarta to Bandung is only 3h by train. The train […]
29 October 2011
We had a nice buffet breakfast at the Novotel where had stayed for the night. But kids were running around noisily around us. It wound Kim up quite badly. On our midday flight from Bandung to Kuala Lumpur, I had ordered possibly the best airline meals I have ever savoured, so Kim could share in […]
27 October 2011
We made our way to Labjuanbajo Airport early for our Wings Air 0830 flight to Denpasar-Bali for our connection to Jakarta. We never expected a traffic jam in a little town like Labuanbajo. But today was the day that locals were departing for their Haj in Mecca. The main road was chocka as was the […]
26 October 2011
Dragon-spotting on Komodo Island As we’ve kept ourselves on New Zealand time in order to make early flights and dives, we woke up naturally at 5am … assisted by the sunrise. Breakfast was cheerfully served at 5:30am and we were at Loh Liang, the National Park base for Komodo Island at 6:00am. We had to […]