Lets pretend this is the first blog.
We considered a preamble, as it was 30 years (not quite to the day)ago, when we boarded a Thai Airways flight (with Susie, who was enroute to London) to Bangkok on the first leg of our first adventure. We were all apprehensive then and nothing has changed...(except the airfares, which have decreased considerably).This time it was not the fear of the unknown but the fear of being able to do it...not as far as Mandy is concerned though!!!!
Like 30 years ago it was a very tearful and sad goodbye at the airport.
A couple of comments re the flights: I carried, in my day pack, enough prescription drugs to last me six months. They filled the pack and yet I was not queried once through four airports:
we flew Dragonair from Hong Kong to Beijing and the food and service (read that as lovely staff continually filling our red wine!) was fantastic and the softest touchdown ever experienced:
lastly we was nervous entering China as we had a one way ticket which apparently is a no no, but the entry was smooth, efficient and very friendly:
no lastly.. the best thing was seeing a gorgeous young lady at the airport exit holding a sign that read " Mandy and Steve"...the lift to our hostel.
Hi you two, just tried your blog for updates and I had two - now I only have this one - no idea what's going on. I have been on Red Lantern website and it looks amazing I can see why Mandy is getting excited. Please keep the blogs coming, could you do me a favour and take pictures of butterflies for me to have blown up, that would be special.
ReplyDeleteHave fun, can't wait for next installment.
Love
Debbie