Not much to tell. It was a long day, starting in Skibbereen with a visit to the famine museum, then a bus ride to Cork, then lunch and a trip to the (mediocre) Crawford Art Gallery. Then a bus to the airport, a flight back to London and a long coachride from Stansted. The latter […]
Long road to Skibbereen
There is no easy way from Lough Carrig to Skibbereen, but that was our destination so we stumped up a euros for a long taxi ride, hoping we’d at least get a beautiful drive out of it. Unfortunately the taxi driver didn’t take the short, scenic route and instead went the long and uninteresting way […]
Misery
My cold was in full swing today, my throat constricted so I could barely swallow, I was unable to eat more than a few bites of anything (all I ate today was a bit of fish from last night’s dinner for breakfast and half a bowl of soup), and felt weak and hot and cold […]
Virtuous edutainment
Our flight wasn’t till the late afternoon so in the morning we went for what was reputed to be amongst the best nasi kerabu places. It was packed, despite being a Friday (weekend in Terengganu) and the day of Shab-e-Meraj, commemorating the Prophet’s ascension to heaven. Nasi kerabu is rice dyed blue with pea flower, […]
Very heavy seas
We arrived at the A’king pier on time, and about ten minutes later a boat arrived and a series of people staggered off, vomiting. We waited for a while, and then one of the staff came over and asked us if we were sure we wanted to go to the island. The GF, who had […]
Gradual decline
I’m now in the Karachi airport domestic departure lounge, which is far brighter (with natural light) and cleaner than the airport hotel. I should perhaps have eaten at the hotel instead of risking a chicken patty that might kill me at the airport but I couldn’t bear today go into the grim, grimy dining room. […]
Airport hotel
A brief flicker of hope that a kindly official would get me onto the 8 am flight to Lahore which would be have trimmed my waiting time to 30 minutes. Sadly no seats were left so I joined the queue for the airport hotel. The place had a slight air of the TDCP rest house, […]
Inflight magazine
Reading these is a great pleasure of mine. The Air Asia ones are distinguished by their award winning letters which follow a similar sort of trend. This month’s was: I flew to Mauritius on Air Asia and didn’t order an in flight meal. Consequently I was hungry. From this experience I learned that one should […]
Step 1
It’s 0230 and I’m halfway through the first long airport stop of the journey. I arrived at the airport half an hour earlier than needed to find a very long hydra headed queue consisting of Pathans pushing trolleys heaped with shrink wrapped blankets. Pakistani men’s vaunted respect and deference to women can rarely be depended […]
Off
My flight to Lahore is tonight, or, correctly, my flight to Karachi is early tomorrow morning. I have a rather ugly journey ahead, and am feeling foolish for not booking a direct flight to Lahore despite the cost. There used to be a direct PIA flight between KL and Lahore; then it changed to KL […]