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  1. Katie

    The embarrassing, educational experience of getting "corrected" by a local

    I can't think of anything in particular, but it's quite common in Germany for Germans to correct your grammatical mistakes as you're speaking.
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    General Medical issues thread

    Hmmm, hyperparathyroid rings a bell … I’m booked in with the Endo in Dec & might run my PTH numbers and calcium past Uncle Endo. And Dr Google tells me there’s memory loss as a symptom, so add that in to the middle aged woman memory issues I’m having, maybe that’s why I’ve forgotten what...
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    What cheeses me off

    When you post in a group about calcium content of a product because of hypercalcaemia and someone responds about how their blood sugars have been so good since taking the product. 🤦‍♀️ HyperCALcaemia, not hyperGLYcaemia!
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    General Medical issues thread

    Just back from a health assessment before I'm too old for this category of health assessment. ;):p Calcium levels continue to be up, GP a little concerned about that, so back to the endocrinologist who I didn't follow up with after my first couple of appts with her (was meant to see her in 12...
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    What cheeses me off

    Being sent a survey by the doctor's clinic to inform the doctor what my appointment is about tomorrow .... when I'm booked in for one of those 45-49yo medicare assessment thingies. Sigh.
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    BNE International Lounge champagne

    I flew BNE-SIN on Fri, 5 Sept. Went downstairs for the novelty on arriving, regretted it with all the morning sun. Only Seppelts or something sparkling in the champers tub at the bar there, didn't ask for better. I had to move upstairs when the downstairs area closed; I was delighted to find...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Weds 13 August We board CX165 also about an hour late. We were unable to change our seats at all on this leg, and we had middle seats at the front of the J cabin. Very efficient services from the FAs with OWE greetings and trying to take our orders for dinner and brekky on their iPad. Mr Katie...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Tues 12 August I slept pretty well through the flight and felt up to some brekky before our 5pm arrival! It's not just Qantas who do it! The pancakes were good, not sure I ate much else. After landing in HKG, I was amused to see we were still 46km away. It felt like we taxied for 46km to...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Monday 11 August I arrive in Zurich by about 10:30 or so and eventually manage to store my luggage in 3 different lockers. All the XL and XXL lockers (for my big red suitcase) were taken, well, all of those at the bottom. There was one in the middle height section, which meant lifting the...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Catching up on Mr Katie So, back to Mr Katie's adventures. Sat 2 August - they stayed at the Novotel in Ypres. Walking distance from the Menin Gate, only street parking available. Sun 3 August - off to Oudenaarde; they stayed at the Leopold Hotel for 1 night and started working on completing...
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    Thank you for your loyalty

    Wow. Email received at 12:40pm saying the SCs will be moved into this year. And they're in my account, just checked at 12:50pm. Day 1 of my status year and I'm on 250 thanks to PCP and the SC gift!
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    Thank you for your loyalty

    I contacted QF through the website today asking if the 150 SCs could be credited to me this year (my status year starts today) as they were useless to me in my last status year.
  13. Katie

    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    I was one leaf short of Green tier yesterday, and my year finished. Can't remember what I needed, but it was doable, I think. I didn't need the SCs, but maybe they'd have helped me think LT WP was possible before I turn 95. Now into the new year with one leaf.
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Monday 11 August, Disembarkation day 😭 We woke to a beautiful day in Basel. And another industrial dock. Apparently, the harbour/river/dock bosses in Basel are quite thingy about where and when you can moor. We had brekky, hung around a little, and waited for our taxi. We had to disembark...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Yes, it's still Sunday, 10 August After chatting with Heidi and her friend, I walked back to the boat. It was lunchtime, so I went down to the restaurant and sat by myself. Not many people had stayed back. There were two half-day excursions; can't remember what the morning one was, maybe to...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Sunday 10 August, cont. On my walk back to the boat, I enjoyed my lemon and something else gelato - refreshing on what was becoming a hotter and hotter day. I walked past two young women with a chocolate lab, who I'd seen on the walk into town. I finished my gelato while on the footpath by...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Sunday 10 August About a month before the cruise, the cruise details suddenly changed in the Ama Waterways app. It listed our cruise as finishing in Breisach in Germany, rather than Basel in Switzerland. This set off a bunch of cruisers, worried about making their connections to flights from...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Saturday 9 August, lunch and beyond What a relief to get into the air con of the bus for the maybe 20 min ride back to the dock. Had to pull the curtains a bit to try to stop the sun beating in - one of these days (Thu or Fri maybe) I was silly and turned off the air con in our room while we...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Saturday 9 August, Strasbourg Time to pop into France! Another industrial dock and bus ride into town. Duckies! Fountain on the edge of the old town, with a slightly different view on each side. It looks old, but it's relatively new (no more than 20-30 years old) Our guide took us into...
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    Katies do Euro Summer

    Fri 8 August, Chain de Rotisseurs dinner cont. On this night, I had the full suggested meal, as suggested. After dinner, in our room we found another exciting gift! Three skeins of hand-dyed yarn; one from Skein Sisters in Sydney, one from Cabin Boys in Ontario (they dye with...
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