From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
This weeks's been interesting - I haven't felt too bad at all, considering the journey we've just done. OK, I awoke early on Tuesday and went in to the office, but Tuesday and Wednesday nights were relatively normal. I'm wondering when - or whether - it's going to hit me. I did sleep in a bit this morning and I seem to have a bit of a head cold coming on again, but otherwise all's well.
I even played squash last night - and I'm going to try again tonight - I badly need the exercise.
I've spent most of the last few days catching up with mail, admin etc - both business and personal. Tomorrow will be different, however - lots of meetings and all the Managers will be here. I'll be ready for a few beers on Friday night.
Nowt else to say really.
Ian R. Stewart Family Blog
Thursday 17 January 2013
Monday 14 January 2013
Journey home
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Our Sunday in KL was even less busy than Saturday had been. We took the hotel shuttle bus up to the Twin Towers, intending to go up, but, when we got there we found out that the first tickets to go to the top wouldn't be available until 7:15 pm, which would make it too tight for us as we were getting picked up to head for the airport at 8:30 pm.
Still, we already had a Plan B in place - we would instead wait until dusk and head up for cocktails at the adjacent Marini's on 57 - not quite as tall as the Twin Towers, but no entrance fees and wonderful views.
We strolled round the very upmarket KLCC mall before heading back to our hotel to pack and relax the afternoon away. Here's Jo in the mall:
It finally came to dusk and we checked out of our hotel and walked to Marini's on 57 where Ross tried out their cocktails as Jo and I stuck to G & T, with a few tapas, including a cheeseboard:
Lots of photos were taken as well, including this one which shows how close the Twin Towers were:
Our journey to the airport was fine and in good time, nicely arriving there just as the Man Utd - Liverpool match started, with the match ending just as we were called to board our plane.
The flight from KL was very good - Malaysian Airlines are excellent - super service and great food, and the A 380 is a terrific plane, although how this monster gets off the ground I'll never know. We arrived at Heathrow's Terminal 4 just after 5 am UK time, and we positively flew through customs and immigration and were over in T5 before 6 am, with our scheduled flight to Aberdeen not due to leave until 4 hours later.
Was there any chance of changing to an earlier flight to Aberdeen? I noticed there was one at 6:55 am, but we were told that was too soon - we had to be there 90 mins before apparently. Disappointed, we trudged off and eventually checked in, went through security and waited. It was Ross who was first to notice that there was another flight at 8:40 am, but, yet again we were too late to notice this. We were disappointed the BA staff didn't point this option out to us however.
Eventually we boarded our scheduled flight, which was held up a little at Heathrow, apparently due to a bit of snow in certain parts of the country. We were therefore a little late landing in Aberdeen, but they then compounded the felony by keeping us waiting on the tarmac for half an hour as there was no available berth for our plane - grrr.
Jacquie's husband Tom was circling the airport building in my car for an hour waiting for us to come out - he wasn't very pleased!
Anyway, we're home now and all seems well. I'm doing this blog partly to keep me awake - it's 5 pm now and we're hoping to stay awake until about 9-ish this evening. Ross has already crashed however, but I bet he's up in the middle of the night.
The North East is white just now and apparently the temperature is going to drop overnight - could take a bit of adjusting to!
Our Sunday in KL was even less busy than Saturday had been. We took the hotel shuttle bus up to the Twin Towers, intending to go up, but, when we got there we found out that the first tickets to go to the top wouldn't be available until 7:15 pm, which would make it too tight for us as we were getting picked up to head for the airport at 8:30 pm.
Still, we already had a Plan B in place - we would instead wait until dusk and head up for cocktails at the adjacent Marini's on 57 - not quite as tall as the Twin Towers, but no entrance fees and wonderful views.
We strolled round the very upmarket KLCC mall before heading back to our hotel to pack and relax the afternoon away. Here's Jo in the mall:
It finally came to dusk and we checked out of our hotel and walked to Marini's on 57 where Ross tried out their cocktails as Jo and I stuck to G & T, with a few tapas, including a cheeseboard:
Lots of photos were taken as well, including this one which shows how close the Twin Towers were:
Our journey to the airport was fine and in good time, nicely arriving there just as the Man Utd - Liverpool match started, with the match ending just as we were called to board our plane.
The flight from KL was very good - Malaysian Airlines are excellent - super service and great food, and the A 380 is a terrific plane, although how this monster gets off the ground I'll never know. We arrived at Heathrow's Terminal 4 just after 5 am UK time, and we positively flew through customs and immigration and were over in T5 before 6 am, with our scheduled flight to Aberdeen not due to leave until 4 hours later.
Was there any chance of changing to an earlier flight to Aberdeen? I noticed there was one at 6:55 am, but we were told that was too soon - we had to be there 90 mins before apparently. Disappointed, we trudged off and eventually checked in, went through security and waited. It was Ross who was first to notice that there was another flight at 8:40 am, but, yet again we were too late to notice this. We were disappointed the BA staff didn't point this option out to us however.
Eventually we boarded our scheduled flight, which was held up a little at Heathrow, apparently due to a bit of snow in certain parts of the country. We were therefore a little late landing in Aberdeen, but they then compounded the felony by keeping us waiting on the tarmac for half an hour as there was no available berth for our plane - grrr.
Jacquie's husband Tom was circling the airport building in my car for an hour waiting for us to come out - he wasn't very pleased!
Anyway, we're home now and all seems well. I'm doing this blog partly to keep me awake - it's 5 pm now and we're hoping to stay awake until about 9-ish this evening. Ross has already crashed however, but I bet he's up in the middle of the night.
The North East is white just now and apparently the temperature is going to drop overnight - could take a bit of adjusting to!
Sunday 13 January 2013
Final day in KL
From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/
We didn't do a lot yesterday - a walk that lasted a couple of hours but didn't go far - it's too hot and steamy - and an afternoon by the pool followed by an evening at the pub then some late night food. There was an opposition (yellow shirts) rally at the Twin Towers, so we kind of bypassed that and just photographed them from the park:
After several beers at TAPS, we decided the only place we wanted to eat late at night was back at the hotel. Ross and I had Shangri-La Slings first:
That's it for now - we're headed out - the rain seems to have stopped for now.
We didn't do a lot yesterday - a walk that lasted a couple of hours but didn't go far - it's too hot and steamy - and an afternoon by the pool followed by an evening at the pub then some late night food. There was an opposition (yellow shirts) rally at the Twin Towers, so we kind of bypassed that and just photographed them from the park:
After several beers at TAPS, we decided the only place we wanted to eat late at night was back at the hotel. Ross and I had Shangri-La Slings first:
That's it for now - we're headed out - the rain seems to have stopped for now.
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