Travel 2007 – Malta

Wednesday, 21st March/Friday, 23rd March 2007 – Malta We were in Malta for four days so I suppose I should talk about some of the trip right now… We left home on Wednesday evening, heading for Gatwick (no sensibly timed flights went from anywhere nearer, and even that wasn’t particularly sensible, being a 7.25 departure)….

Travel 2006 – Macau, Day 3

Monday, 13th November 2006 – Macau Monday I got up just before 8 and went off to investigate the hotel gym. It proved to be precisely 5 pieces of equipment, none of them a treadmill, on the 23rd floor, with the French windows open to the elements and more importantly the humid Macanese air. I…

Travel 2006 – London, Hong Kong, Macau, Days 1 – 2

Saturday, 11th/Sunday, 12th November 2006 – London, Hong Kong, Macau Saturday went pretty much as you’d expect. We left for Heathrow at 12.30, and even taking the long way round we were there in plenty of time to hand over the car to the Purple Parking attendant (who, disappointingly, wasn’t at all purple) who takes…

Travel/Food 2005 – Macau

Saturday, 12th/Tuesday 22nd November 2005 – Macau We wasted a lot of the day at the airport, but it was worth checking in early to get the extra legroom seats on the plane. Virgin now sell these seats, at £50 extra each. They were, however, doing a promotion of buy one get one free, so…

Travel 2004 – London, Hong Kong, Macau, Day 1

Sunday, 14th November 2004 – London, Hong Kong, Macau, Day 1 The best way to fly long distances is definitely with the aid of narcotics! Friday’s flight was only 11 and a half hours, which is even better really than the usual flying times. I can only presume there was a tailwind or something, but…

Travel 2003 – Macau, Hong Kong, London, Day 11

Tuesday, 18th November 2003 – Macau, Hong Kong, London, Day 11 Today was mostly devoted to combat packing as we all tried to stuff the extra goodies we’d acquired into various bags and cases. Lynne and I made the trip to the main (possibly only) post office with stuff for other people, which was fun….

Travel 2003 – Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong, Macau

Friday 7th/Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th November 2003 – Getting to Macau (Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong, Macau) It started well enough until I left the office to head out for Schiphol Airport. I arrived slightly ahead of schedule to be told that my flight had been cancelled and that they were therefore putting me on an earlier…