Day 2 – 23 May 2016

A 6.30am wake-up and a short 100m walk for a 7am check-in at the airport. A couple didn’t like their bulkhead seat allocation, I was fairly happy to change with them as there was more legroom. In immigration my new passport played up a bit so a manual check through before the security line. It always amazes me the things that people carry through in their bags.   A woman before us had large tubes of moisturisers and other make-up products binned, causing a fair delay in our line. Then Tereza went through the scanning machine & had to be frisked by a guard, apparently the wire in her bra caused the issue. We wandered around the duty free shops before a light breakfast then more browsing.

The flight to Hong Kong was uneventful, a few bumps over the south China Sea. The on-board meals were O.K. and Tereza spent most of the flight finishing reading her book & I read the Financial Times whilst listening to the in-flight classical music. The new noise-cancelling headphones I bought work really well. Our landing in Hong Kong was a bit bouncy, but safe. It is a really long, long walk from the gate to the airport train to take us to immigration, baggage area & arrivals is another fair walk from the train. We have never seen so many people going up on one escalator – we are spoiled in Australia. We walked even more to the flybridge to our hotel for the night, the Airport Regal – a huge place 1300 rooms. Check-in was easy & it was good to take the shoes off & relax in our room, slippers & bathrobes provided with all the toiletry one needs after travel. A 5.30am start in the morning. They told us breakfast starts at 6am in the hotel. We are on the 10^th floor, the room is nice, we even have a view of a harbour, part of the city lights look good, but that is about all we will see of Hong Kong, it is only rest break for us. I really must be getting old, I found the flight very long, it was just under 10 hours (tomorrow it will longer, about 13

hours) we used to make the whole leg of the trip to Europe & America in one hit.