Pass the Duchy
Re: LUX, don’t do it
Yeah, easyJet. You vicarious voyeurs didn’t sign up for that now did you? Ahem. Two things greeted me upon waking up, early on Sunday. Well, three things really.
Firsty work
No cat to wake me up on Sunday. Rather, a phone call from Australia at 1.30am. I mean seriously, stop that. Didn’t answer, got voicemail, ignored. Leave me alone. For now. Y’know, I never wanted to go to Luxembourg yesterday.…
It's my birthday and I'll fly if I want to
life, the universE, and everything
Before any chance to even find out how England were performing, I of course had to get off the plane and make my way through security. The “Australian Business Traveller” website recently published a guide on precisely how to transit…
Melbourne penultimatum
Closing time
So here’s how Melbourne airport works: exactly like Sydney international terminal, except better. In the big corridor there are kiosk machines for those of us with ePassports, and a big queue has formed. My time in the cockpit has removed…
Styles Clash
Clan Up
See, the reason the title works so well is because my nieces are referred to as AJ and Harry, and there’s a wrestler called AJ Styles, and some famous singer called Harry Styles, and the two girls fight a bit,…
Terms and conditions
So I’m condensing multiple days into single blog posts, and (obviously) being later than usual in my writing up of happenings. I’m also writing not from notes, but memories augmented by photos. This is what happens when a holiday involves…
If you can't talk proper, shut your mouth
Your garage awaIts
Sunday morning. Neither Australia nor the UK have a useful prime minister . The girls come wake me up at 7am. “Can I please have go on your iPad?” I tell them yes, take it away, they can’t come climb…
Men behaving Manly
Independence day
Not much morning hassle from the girls on Monday morning. It’s clear by now that they’re not hugely interested in spending time with uncle Darren; well, they are, but not as much as spending time with my iPad. They come…
Leaving on a jet plane
Not entirely sure when I’ll be back again.
No visit from the girls on Tuesday morning. Have I, or my iPad, fallen out of favour I wonder? It’s my last day in Sydney and there’s basically nothing to do. The original plan was to do the walk we…
Blame Haneda Newest
I hate you Butler
Haneda airport is new to me. I’ve been to Tokyo once before, ten years ago, and not this airport. It’s 5.23am when I first see a clock on the ground, which really isn’t long after we landed. There’s no Three…