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OOPS Breakfast before arrival in HEL: Knitting progress Flight path - away from hotspots in the ME and RU (mostly) Coming in to land in HEL! OK, back to our transfer time in HEL. In the Schengen zone, we stopped by the Moomin store and bought the Teen some Moomin Papa socks. She loves...

AY132 Thurs 24 July SIN-HEL Finally, we can say we've flown from sin to hell. Groan. :p The Finnair amenity kit is a bit underwhelming. You can ask for socks if you want them. I think I used the eye mask and ear plugs and that was it. I really liked the seats. The only downside as a side...

Oohh, good idea ...

FIL update. We arrived home from Europe last Weds. Told the ILs in the group chat we were home. On Thurs, Mr Katie gets a message from one sister "call me as soon as you can". He calls her back in the afternoon, discovers that FIL was admitted to hospital on the day we left (24/7), spent a week...

Channel country views ... somewhere in Oz ... A tailings dam maybe?? Before arriving in SIN, I had the tamarind tiger prawns They were tasty. Our plane seemed to arrive right at the end of a pier in SIN. I haven't been through SIN in more than 10 years I think, but much of the...

QF291 Thurs 24/7 Operated by AY on AY aircraft. We have seats 2A and 3A and settle in for the day trip up to Singapore. I loved the new FinnAir J seats - I could even sit cross legged in them! Happy we got PJs on this day flight to help us for the next AY flight without them. Service...

Sitting in HKG waiting for our final flight home, which delayed by an hour. Let’s see what I can add to this TR … Happily, I got better after arriving in Berlin. Unhappily, a cold started going around the boat late last week and I’m sick again. Boo.

Thursday 24 July, we start our 35 hour journey to Berlin, our meeting point with Mumma Katie and the Teen. We’re flying AY and QF, BNE-SYD-SIN(QF291, AY operated)-HEL-BER. In the checkin queue, I decide to photograph all of our bags. This was a GOOD IDEA. Stay tuned to find out why! We have...

Over to the Mr Katie and Katie week in the lead up to departure. Weekend prior - spent tidying, washing sheets, preparing spare bedroom for our lesbian invaders, and making meals for the dog and the Teen when she returns, as well as GF and onion free for our first lesbian invader (aka dear...

Alrighty, we’re now half way through the Katie and Mr Katie portion of the trip, so time to start updating this thread. The Teen and Mumma Katie - Paris edition. They caught the Eurostar on a Sunday afternoon, and made their way to Hotel Meslay Republique, which Mumma Katie chose without any...

The Teen and Mumma Katie have completed their time in London and are now in their next city. Some London notes: On arrival, their luggage took almost an hour to arrive at the carousel. The Teen was messaging me to use the Apple Find My app to check they were in London and not in DOH still...

Thanks to being able to see my MRI report in the QScan app, and to my physio, I understand more about my back pain than what the ortho explained to me. He basically said my discs are degenerating/have degenerated, there’s no surgical answer and I should see a pain management clinic. Severe...

Thanks to renos at BNE, this was the best departure pic I got of the Teen and Mumma Katie.

Cruise updates There must be some water issues in the Rhine, as our cruise is now finishing in Breisach instead of Basel. The cruise line will get us into Basel on disembarkation day (Mumma Katie and I were arranging our own transfers/what we were doing after disembarking). The TA organising...

Stage 1 of the trip has commenced! Mumma Katie and the Teen departed and flew BNE-DOH-LHR, successfully navigating Doha airport for the first time together. Teen was unimpressed with her GF meal on the first flight as it unfortunately contained a heaping pile of mushrooms. She opted for a...

New addition: cheeky weekend in Singers with my BFF as she's on her way home from a trip to Sri Lanka. Her sister was meant to join her, but due to complications with her sister's newly purchased house, sister doesn't have the spare cash. As this is the year of "Say yes", I looked at my...

Perfect timing for Mr Katie's and my upcoming flights.

I’m mot sure bursitis comes and goes like that. I’ll defer to the doctors here! I was diagnosed with it in both hips around Sept last year (via ultrasound). The cortisone injection in one hip a few weeks ago has been the first thing to make a significant difference to the pain. As always...

Thank you. My only cruise thus far (as I don’t count the ferry from Oslo to Cooenhagen!!) was a 6 night Disney cruise, so the dress standards were much more do what you want and formal meant wearing your sequinned Mickey/Minnie ears!! 🤣

Cruise etiquette I'm going on an AMA Rhine cruise with my Mum in a few weeks. Do I need to dress up for dinner? I'm thinking maybe linen trousers ... but was hoping to keep my luggage minimal (that is, single suitcase) as I'll be carting it by train from Berlin-Essen, Essen-Brussels (with 2...