58. Auckland – Bali – Frankfurt – Home

Sunday, April 7: Auckland: Partly cloudy
Bali: Sunny
Hannover: Sunny but cold

I was able to use the switch from daylight savings as expected, and the others were fairly early out of bed as well. Finished off the sultana bran, the OJ, the coffee and the milk, and that left only a couple of slices of bread and some margarine.

Was well in time for my bus and just had to walk down Commerce St and the Sky Bus was the next thing to arrive. Yesterday’s last minute return to St Helliers to print out the bus ticket, while costing only $1.95, was doubly superfluous because the image on the camera was sufficient. Once at the airport after 45 minutes the printed out boarding passes also turned out to be love’s labor lost as they were printed out for me when I presented my luggage (25.1 kg in the suitcase). The only thing that the online check-in was good for was getting a seat. Read more…

0. Hannover – Frankfurt – Dubai

Friday, February 8: Cloudy, then fine, not really cold

That was cutting it a bit fine. Up at 8:30, then off to the office for a short chat with Joy. Was trying to finalise things back here in the flat, when I heard some scratching at the front door, and Jennifer and Theresa had come early with all of their belongings. Jennifer had taken the day off and was keen to move in at the noon mentioned in the contract. Anyhow I still had a good hour and forty minutes to do, including a shave and a shower, taking out the rubbish, filling in a last couple of boxes, removing my smelly old clothes, and trying to find a way of packing the boots, a pair of shoes that can be thrown away, and the paddling clogs. In the end wore the shoes, put the boots in the backpack and the clogs dangling off the backpack with the bed roll and the ratsack. Read more…


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