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Hong Kong transit
Posted by Rod in Travel at 11:20 am on Sunday, 20 May 2007

Landed in Hong Kong. Decided to take the west route to the UK rather right thru LAX so I could feel a bit more like a person.

The Hong Kong flight leaves at 11:30pm. Would you believe last flight Wellington to Auckland on a Saturday is 7pm. Thank goodness for Dancing with the Stars. Great to watch with a crowd.

Finally the International Lounge now has free wifi. Thanks Air New Zealand.

Fortunately met up with a couple of Ernst & Young Partners heading to Hong Kong. The three of us being fathers with preschool children so were all excited about the uninterrupted hours catching up on movies. We were all talk, lasted one movie and slept. Leg one over painlessly.

The guy opposite me took his shirt off to sleep. He got up, walked around, went to the loo - all shirtless. It’s great to be relaxed but surely that’s taking it a bit far. Thank goodness he didn’t go completely natural. You wouldn’t want turbulence with all that going on.

After all the TV advertising I was disappointed that my brand new, seal unbroken, 125ml tube of Colgate Total counts as a liquid. Who would have thought the events of a few in New York would reach into almost everyones daily lives many years later. Confiscated after a small and futile protest. Wonder what happens to it?

Pouring with rain in Hong Kong. Couple of hours and we’re off again.

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Comments(3)

    Comment by Troy at 11:35 am on 20 May 2007

    The combined breath of all the toothpaste-less passengers would constitute a far bigger thereat than a tube of toothpaste I would have thought.




    Comment by Falafulu Fisi at 3:01 pm on 20 May 2007

    I was in Hong Kong at the beginning of May in 2005 and the temperature was like cooking in an oven. Getting from one bar to the next, I had to catch a taxi even though they were walking distance apart, the reason ,it was too hot to walk. I guess that if it is raining right there now, then I assume that the weather would be a bit cooler.




    Comment by Dermott at 9:06 am on 23 May 2007

    “The guy opposite me took his shirt off to sleep. He got up, walked around, went to the loo - all shirtless” - so Matthew Ridge was on the plane then?