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Timely thread, this is. Dad and I will be taking off this coming Monday to HKG, then next day fly to CKG. A full day in Chongqing followed by Yangtze cruise to Yichang (highlight 3 Gorges Dam), then fly up to Xian (highlight terracotta warriors), then train to Shenzhen. 2 weeks total. Already...

I remember we had the full F&W set, including dictionary (or dictionaries?). I can't quite remember how all the latter volumes were obtained, because I think I remember Mum and Dad being a bit hesitant to get volumes beyond the first few. Was quite handy once I knew how to read and use them...

Anyone who disobeys that sign has got some balls!

It's said in Christianity that the golden commandment (or the "11th commandment") was shared by Jesus, and now usually stated as, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I'm sure many other religions have a similar "commandment" and I can't imagine too many secular people rejecting...

Whether you're in Y, J or F, never forget the marvel and miracle of air travel. It is a privilege, not a right. I try and maintain this thought at all times. The last thing I want is for travel to be stale, and air travel lets us find adventure around the world within hours or days, not weeks...

"If we have the canteen steak pie, we'll all be here all night!" - Mr Humphries, "The Clock", Are You Being Served A decent pie can make a good mini meal... but yeah, they gotta at least try! Can't be that hard to source and put a little tub of tomato relish by Beerenberg per tray. Yeesh. I...

I've done the overnight cruise going the other way, viz. Stockholm to Helsinki. I was weighing up my options between this, a train or a night in a hotel followed by a flight; the overnight cruise was the most economical, particularly when booked close to the date of departure. Cannot quite...

At 90 min out, seems like Sydney's Narita......

Had this last time I flew SQ SIN-BNE, the 2200h-ish departure (not the 0045h-ish one). Admittedly it was Y, so lots of mouths to feed compared to J, but dinner was at a leisurely pace and then we were woken at about 2h30m to go for a hot snack (cf. breakfast) and drinks. In some way, didn't...

DateFlight #DEP AirportLoungeTimeGuestsComments Tue 1st anat0lCA420HKGSQ J, or any *A lounge12000 Sat 12th anat0lCX161HKGAny ow lounge1900-1Can arrive and meet earlier in the day Sun 13th anat0lQF594SYD (T3)QF QP or QF J1130-1Ticketed on CX codeshare

DateFlight #DEP AirportLoungeTimeGuestsComments Mon 30th anat0lCX150BNE (Intl)QF J or any1000-21 guest in is fine, if possible

Them CBR flights got the short straw for catering!

Too much and some would be pesto off. 🙂

Not sure I count four cheeses there. Doesn't appear to be a sauce base and I debate the crust.... the Finnish made a pizza to insult Italians, I think we have an emerging contender...

Looks rather crusty on top for a quiche Lorraine. The size must be decent but looks misleadingly small based on the photo. I like how they qualified the pancakes as "home made". The catering cook made them according to their recipe at home? (I can understand when you order directly at a...

A boy was admitted to hospital after an accident on the trampoline. Doctors say he'll soon bounce back.

I asked my surgeon if I could use my own anaesthesia. He said, "Sure, knock yourself out." :)

I suppose one could argue a huge number of regional airports would be "absurdly close" to their city/town centres. MNL is funny, because from the City of Manila itself to MNL (i.e. NAIA), yeah it's geographically close. But thanks to Manila's infamous traffic, it takes horribly long (even if...

Mine was my gaming handle from a very long time ago. Of course, in the old gaming days, it was cool to replace some letters in your name with numerals instead; zero for "oh" was very common. As for where the handle itself came from, I think I was just playing with random words or names in my...