![]() We had a kind of choice between salmon, and chicken/noodles in chilli. The food came relatively late really, just after midnight CET. It was a long flight, some ten hours, so I managed to grab a few snatches of sleep. Everything seemed to be in little sections on the plane, rather than it being one whole compartment like on the earlier flight. The aeroplane to Hong Kong was much larger, an A340 Airbus. Lots of Yugoslavians were around in the airport, don’t know if they were coming or going or what they were doing there in the first place! They seemed to be a couple of sports teams, I’d guess basketball or volleyball or some such sport like that. Didn’t do too much wrote a bit of my story “Louise”, and read a bit. Spent about three hours in Munich airport. In any case I knew I would be taking the way back before too long. Had some food on the plane, can’t remember what but I know it wasn’t chicken … !! I didn’t feel at all strange flying out, it didn’t really bother me I like to travel and in any case I had been looking forward to this for some time. Cute!Ĭan’t really remember my flight from Birmingham to Munich, was a bit non-descript. Then she saw someone she hadn’t seen for a few years and they had a kind of reunion. My rucksack was oddly defined as being “oversized” so had to be taken to a separate luggage entry place was asked if there was anything electric in it and buggered if I could remember!!Īt the airport, lol something made me laugh a lady in her 40s/50s came back to her family, smiling, and shouted in a posh kind of voice “oh bugger!”. Took the train to International Station checked in and stuff. Had to buy a few things – got four disposable cameras for the price of two, some shaving gel cos I forgot to bring it I think, a second pair of trousers, and picked up my Chinese currency. Cleared up my webmails and made sure that everyone knew I was going away. Plus my walking boots take up a bit too much room. There’s a lot of bottles and stuff that though small don’t actually pack too well. Have probably taken too much stuff even though I’ve hardly brought anything. When forced, it’s amazing how easy I find this if I force myself!! Hee hee!!įinished packing. ![]() Some pictures in this journal were taken by Tom and Mona Ahren, Andrew Heskins, and Kathrin Lüthi. Upon their travels they will come across curious people, different food, the odd dead body, fall in and out of love, and discover the answer to some long-discussed questions, such as : How many DVDs can two Swedes buy in an afternoon? How do you stack shelves in a disco? What do Tibetan Monks do in their spare time? Where exactly is Tibet anyway? What does Chinese home-brew taste like? And just who is Lloyd and why is he a gimp?Ĭome with us now as we join these Imaginative Travellers in their voyage into the unknown, on the Sichuan Explorer! Sixteen different people, all with their own tales to tell, merge upon Hong Kong one hot humid September evening to embark on an epic adventure around Mid-Western China.
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