The big adventure starts here.
Well actually it started a few months ago when we were talked into a longer than usual trip. This of course involved a lot of planning with pre-payment of bills, cancelling of papers etc, registering cars, and hoping that Becky and family would look after the cat. The family and cat get on well together but Becky has a new house and garden which the cat has never seen before. I expect they will manage but Di worries
Yesterday afternoon we went to pick up our hire car from Richmond for the trip into the airport. For us this is very convenient but also the cheapest way of getting there.
We had booked a small car but this is what we ended up with. A top of the range Toyota 4 x 4 which the hire company needed to get back to Sydney International. This suited us and meant the holiday started with an extra bit of luxury.
We put the suitcases out last night and started to pack but it wasn't until we picked them up to check the weights that we realized one was badly damaged and it literally fell apart. Its had a hard life! It was too late to go shopping for new ones so we arranged to borrow one from Becky. We were calling in anyway to say bye and drop off the cat but now we had to repack one case again.
This is our plane, a Thai Airways 747, flight TG472 which took off on time at 15.55.
Di wasn't keen to fly with Thai Airways but it was the best deal we could do to get us to Bangkok and connect with Scandinavian Airlines. I think the plane was showing its age as although we were flying business class it seemed noisy and the seats were uncomfortable. Now I remember why Di wasn't keen to fly with Thai.
We arrived in Bangkok on time at 2200, local time.
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