It was an uneventful flight back to Auckland.  The weather had been glorious and I’m glad I made the most of the summer with visits around the country.

It’s back home and back to the “salt mine” again until my next weekend trip in a couple of weeks.

It was nice to be able to join my French visitor here and hopefully again in Queenstown soon.  But in the mean time, its back home and back to work.

I woke early as if it was a workday, to take the flight to Nelson to meet my friend and visitor, Marie.  The scenery was gorgeous … one forgets how pleasurable it is to do flights on a turboprop (in good weather). I haven’t flown domestically for a while. Air New Zealand has a new […]

My Air New Zealand flight arrived in Auckland at 1100.  I was pleased to be home after another great adventure, and looking forward to the Kiwi summer.

After a long transit in Dubai, I boarded my Emirates flight to Hong Kong.  I was ready for sleep with the scheduled departure of 0315.  Upon landing in Hong Kong at 1710, it was a quick self-connection to my Air New Zealand to Auckland at 1915.   I had to collect my bag and make my […]

Once again I leave Sana’a, a very special city, to go my home in Auckland. Leaving at 1015, I took the Emirates flight to Dubai where I had 13h30 hours in transit, from 1345 to 0315.  Because it would largely be day-time, it wasn’t worthwhile getting a hotel room.  Fortunately I have a choice of […]

My journey on Emirates from Hong Kong to New York involved a 3h55 connection in Dubai, from 0435 to 0830. While on transit in Dubai I overheard an African man talking to the airline clerk about his luggage … he had happily paid excess baggage for 10 pieces totalling 300kg from Beijing to Dubai to […]