Tropical Winter, Fri, 04 Aug 2017 | written by Simon
Simon with Charlie, Dee, Eva at a Transit in Australia, Australia & Oceania

I am not looking forward to this. 27 hours between three planes. First leg, Edinburgh to Amsterdam, was very stuffy and sleepy – I was pretty much passed out. I think I dreamt that Eva kept offering me some of her surplus adrenaline, or maybe she did, it’s all a blur.

Now it’s Amsterdam and cheap coffee. I know it’s the Netherlands and I should get good coffee, but this whole trip costs way too much to spend even more on fancy stomach fillers.

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Landed in Guangzhou. So far so good, slept some, read some, caught up on some good films. Another 8 hours on the plane starting soon. Now just a lot of queuing and enjoying the Chinese advertising aesthetic, with its bright colours and interesting geometric compositions. I’m curious about music, too. There is a lot of the same sort tunes you hear in Asian-themed places in the West, the sort that’s played on traditional instruments and mostly based on pentatonic, but with western harmony, scales,  phrase development and general structure. I wonder if this is just airport chimes aimed at international tourists, or is this how they do it everywhere?
Eva is tired, but not too stressed. Adrenaline down, wingiline up, but within manageable levels 😉

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Landed in Melbourne. Finally! We set out at 6am on Thursday and arrived at 8pm on Friday, losing 9 hours on the way. Two full if somewhat shorter days on the plane. That is most definitely enough. Standing now in a massive passport control queue, dreaming of a comfy bed and hoping the jetlag won’t be too bad.

BTW, I’ll be attaching pictures to those entries a bit later, when I get to use a computer, doing it in the blogger mobile app is just a pain…