Sunday 31st May I set off on my trip from Adelaide, after a few hassles with luggage - how do you fit your life into 30 odd kilos? Well, I somehow managed, and off through customs etc I trundled. No problems there, although I was a bit devo to have to tip my lovely Barossa rainwater out. Stupid 100ml liquids & gels law... After shedding quite a few tears (goodbye parents! love you!) I boarded the jet to Hong Kong, red-eyed and probably looking scared as. After an hour or so stopover in Melbourne (cos their fuel is obviously superior to ours...) we were off to HK. Got through a few movies (Twilight (again... hm. Obsessed anyone?? Although I finally got to see it in non-pirated form! The sparkly skin is so much better! haha) & Yes Man) & TV shows and even a couple games of sudoko thanks to the great in flight entertainment. Another kind of entertainment occurred as well - apparently the airplane food was no good - or so a man's stomach in the row behind me thought. Ick. On the upside, the crew made a call for any doctors on board to make themselves known. Our flight was quite the popular one with doctors it seemed as about 10 showed up! One big typical Australian guy took over and asked for the medical box with his loud booming voice, which they then opened in the seat next to mine (vacated by my neighbour for a bit) so I got to see them prepare the anti-nausea injection they gave him. Twas quite exciting! Also got to pretend I was concerned about swine flu and wear a face mask for much of the rest of the flight - I'm not (concerned that is) - it just smelt really bad around our seats. Nice huh.
Anywho 12 or so hours later we arrived in Hong Kong & I found my way to the next terminal where I boarded for Zurich. Got a window seat on this flight which I was happy about - makes it so much easier to sleep. Watched another couple movies (Confessions of a Shopaholic and Happy Feet) inbetween sleeping. Woke up again as we were passing over Russia, although couldn't see too much of the countryside, was a bit cloudy. Kept up a vigil at the window though until we reached Switzerland - then WOW. To see the mountains appear, cloaked in snow - it was just spectacular. Took stacks of photos of course but it never does what you're actually seeing justice.
And so I arrived in Zurich.
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