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10 June 2025
After a relaxing day yesterday of just lunch with a friend from Melaka and a gym workout, I had my long-awaited big day today. It’s the day of my CT Calcium Score test to see the level of obstruction (if any) in my arteries, in case I can do without taking statins. I had recently […]
8 June 2025
Above: Tapas at the airport lounge upon arrival. Arriving in Kuala Lumpur I had about 4h sleep on board with the aid of 1.5 tablets of sleeping pills and a very good recline position on the slimline aircraft seats. That’s the highest dose I had ever taken. Nothing seemed to happen with the initial 1 […]
7 June 2025
Above: Malaysia Airlines A330neo interior. Trip Overview This trip started with an intention to go to Europe for summer, to escape New Zealand’s wet and windy winter. We managed to get confirmed tickets on points from Taipei to Vienna and later on added budget airline flights around to various sunny spots, and then it kept […]
23 April 2025
I leave Kuala Lumpur today for hometown, after a whole in the big city. The day was spent having lunch in Kampung Baru, a long massage and dinner with friends Faiz and Colin. I woke at 0615 to take the 0700 train to the airport. I did a lot of work at the landside lounge […]
20 April 2025
Final sightseeing It’s my last day in Xian and China today before a flight out after midnight. I had they day to kill and I chose to do that with E & BW. Kim went out with Dennis instead, to do car “things”. KL & M had departed this morning for Penang. The morning was […]
19 April 2025
Transport to Huashan Today we have a trip to Huashan. I had booked the entrance and cablecar tickets as a combo with return transport from the city to Huashan which is about 2h away each way. We had the choice of meeting at a set pick-up point or from our hotel. But because our […]
18 April 2025
Main site Today we revisit the Terracotta Warriors outside town, combined with the Huaqing Palace near to the warriors site. It is possible to do it by public transport but some of us decided it would be eaiser getting a private car. It turned out to be a great decision as it was a long […]
17 April 2025
Moving to Xian Today we take the bullet train from Chongqing West to Xian North, a journey of less than 5h30. We took two taxis to the station for the 1057 departure. As it was a big station, getting there an hour before hand gave us less waiting time than at previous stations. Because […]
16 April 2025
Above: Chongqing skyline in the background. Yangtze River Cableway We wanted to take the cable car across the Yangtze during our stay in Chongqing, to get a good overview of the city. To avoid the crowd, we started early and was aided by the fact we were 5 mins away from the cable car […]
15 April 2025
Sleeper train to Chongqing After four nights at Wulingyuan (or six nights at the Wulingyuan and Zhangjiajie area) we depart for Chongqing. Our now regular driver picked us up after breakfast at 0930 to take us to Zhangjiajie West station. It was our sixth time at the station having done trips from there to Furong […]