Posts Tagged ‘air travel’

Ambivalence

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

On the one hand, I am really looking forward to being home.
On the other hand I am really not looking forward to the process of getting home.
My flight leaves Melbourne in two hours, then it’s 7 hours to Singapore, a 2 hour wait, then 14 and a half hours to London, then a 6 hour [...]

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Here We Go Again

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Yup. It’s around the world again.
Same route, same distance, slightly longer stay this time.

I checked it out this time, the straight-line distances between the airports are (I put the imperial numbers in for the Yanks, in the parentheses):
Outbound

Halifax - London (Heathrow) : 4589km (2852)
London (Heathrow) - Hong Kong : 9653km (5998)
Hong Kong - Melbourne: 7410km [...]

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