29 March 2025
The record breaking 3rd flight
Singapore to Hong Kong on an A350
OK, this flight was an Airbus A350 and the previous one was a Boeing dreamliner. I no longer know my planes. They are both almost identical, 3 x 3 x 3 seating in a space that should have 2 x 4 x 2, I am not sure I am using my x's correctly in that but you get the idea.
Anyway, I set 2 new world records. The first one was the most number of flights taken in a day to get from Melbourne to Hong Kong, which is 3.
The second one was the amazingly fast exit from Hong Kong airport, from the time I was off the plane to the time I was on the train, 12 minutes, including clearing customs, getting my bag and walking to the train. Astonishing!
The flight was again full, and so I was thrilled that a child too old to cry yet still quite small sat next to me, he seemed ok at first, but you guessed it, by the end he had developed full blown covid and went through 1.5 boxes of tissues, the remnants of which filled the air and littered the floor. So that is probably going to be the end of my holiday, medivac flight coming soon.
I am actually typing some of this sitting on the airport train, but I know the only remaining photos of the day are going to be the hotel room photos, if they let me check in, refer previous Korean trip when a Japanese hotel chain decided to cancel my booking and give my room to someone else for arriving after midnight, despite me advising the hotel I would be arriving after midnight and them replying that would be fine. I am still bitter.
Here is the inside of the Hong Kong airport express train. Low effort photo, I am tired.
And since there are photos of my hotel room here, it means they did not cancel my booking. It really is bed time now, but the hotel seems good enough, room is quite big.
It would not be a long day of boring photos if there was not a photo of a toilet. Now, sleep.