I love air travel

For some reason, every time I travel somewhere by plane, something always goes wrong.  Ofcourse, most people who travel expect a certain amount of hassle or annoyance, but what I'm talking about goes way beyond your average grumble.  

Take for instance 2 years ago.  I was on my way to Hong Kong from London, via Schipol, Amsterdam.  And what happens?  Terrorist alerts hit the ceiling and all flights get grounded.  To make matters worse, this only happened as I get to the airport, meaning I had travelled all the way from Bristol for the flight.  To cut a long story short, I spent nearly 48 hours travelling by Tube, Train, Bus, Ferry and Plane to get to Hong Kong.  It was worth it in the end, but did not give me fond memories of airports and airplanes.

And on to today.  I was supposed to catch my flight to Hong Kong tonight at 9pm.  No stopover for me, so I thought all would be fine.  How wrong was I.  I called the airline earlier to confirm the flight, and the lady on the phone said ever so nonchalantly that my flight would be delayed by 11 hours!  No apology.  Not even a phone call.  I now arrive in Hong Kong at the ever so convenient time of 2.45am.  Anyway, this is the way travel works.  You plan and plan and plan, and then on the day anything could happen.  So rather than grumble, I'm gonna enjoy the extra few hours I have in sunny England, and write one last post before I leave (if I do indeed leave at all).

Before I go, I thought it might be cool to actually tell people where I'm going.  So here it is, my itinerary of greatnessss:

London - Hong Kong - Singapore - Hanoi - Halong Bay - Sapa - Ta Van - Hanoi - Hue - Hoi An - Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh City - Phnom Penh - Kampot - Sihanoukville - Siem Reap - Bangkok -Ko Tao - Ko Samui - Phuket - Kuala Lumpur - Kota Kinabalu - Macau - Hong Kong - London

So hopefully the next time I post will be in some sweaty internet cafe sipping coconut juice from a coconut.  Till then...