Day 63 Saturday 23 July 2016

Hong Kong is a beautiful 33C when we land at around 3pm & on schedule after around 12 hours flight time. After exiting the plane we go through the security process again then wander around looking at the Duty Free stuff for a while before finding the Cathay Pacific Lounge. We are in the air conditioned lounge & whiling our time away for about 3 hours, catching up on emails, Facebook, news, munching on a bit of food, a bit of red wine, a coffee, etc. When the flight details on the big screen show that our flight is boarding soon I wake Tereza & we start making our way to the boarding gate. It is a long walk from the lounge we are in, then down a couple of long flights of escalators, then catch the intra-airport train to the terminal that our flight is departing from, then up some more long escalators, then more lengthy walking, then some long travelators, I am starting to get concerned we won’t get to our gate before the flight closes. Our gate is at the very end of this terminal & we pass another Cathay Pacific Lounge on our way, if I had known this one was here we could have come to this lounge first. We get to the last travelator & some air hostesses are asking us if we are on the Sydney flight, they usher us onto the travelator & at the end of this we go through another security check, then ushered down onto the plane. We are in plenty of time, we are in our seats on the plane for around 10 minutes while other people are still boarding.

We depart the terminal on time at 6.50pm & as we are taxiing to the runway the sun sets over the mountains behind the city. Tereza gets a great view of Hong Kong & the setting sun from her window seat & we start to settle in for the next long haul flight to Sydney. The hostesses are soon serving us drinks, Tereza has a nice cocktail to start, then another delicious dinner with a very nice French red wine followed by a cheese platter & a glass of port. After dinner I settle in & sleep on the full length bed while Tereza settles in & watches some movies.

Another great day, we have gone this far towards home.