Tag: flight

Welcome Home

The A380 by British Airways could use a hell of a jetstream from San Francisco to London and made the distance in just 9 hours… well, if we could have landed straight away. But heavy winds and a busy Heathrow airport forced the pilot to fly a few loops within turbulences. This and a bouncy landing resulted in three persons to throw up – just in our seating row.

The connection flight to Zurich arrived with a few minutes delay, nothing severe. With a big welcome from family and friends (THANKS!!!) we reached the end of our fantastic journey around the world. 🙂

Maui – San Francisco

Three weeks on four islands of Hawaii, it was great. Less rain, less closed roads but more lava and we might come again. 🙂

For the flight to San Francisco, Hawaiian Airlines operates a rather large Airbus A330 with modern entertainment systems and tons of movies – but you need to pay for them! $8 for one movie was overpriced, not just for us. The plane flew with around 260 screensavers running. Not cool!

  • Overpriced!
  • 260 screensavers

Hello New Zealand!

An early but comfortable flight to Christchurch, New Zealand.

We’ll start on the southern island…

First thing to do: get local SIM cards for our mobiles. It was amazingly easy, mobile internet was working before we even had paid. And we had provided zero personal data. Great service from Spark store at the Airport.

Next: campervan! The mandatory paper work as always, but still on time to stock up at Countdown (rebranded from Woolworths), checking in at the campground, going for dinner and finally making our vehicle a place to live for the next four weeks.

Singapore to Perth

Steffi: “Gerry, what time does your watch show?”

Gerry: “(Yawn) It is… oh, damn, it’s almost 11 AM. Damn, we missed the breakfast! Damn, we need to check-out!”

This is how our last day in Singapore started. So we had brunch at “STPI”s, a coffee at Starbuck in a shopping mall and another walk back to the hotel. It was raining, so we couldn’t do much more anyway and we left quite early to the airport, doing the early-check-in for our Qantas flight to Perth, Australia.