Madrid was a bit of a blur to be honest as I was jetlagged as hell, not sleeping that well as I was far out of sync, still dealing with the installing-server-over-iPhone hassles, and making my first attempts at proper conversations in Spanish with people who don't speak any English – who were in overwhelming majority, surprisingly for a big city like this.
While your 747 from Hong Kong to Frankfurt was a little old and so not so flash, it was fine and the flight was uneventful. However, when you are a German airline, and have an plane full of mostly German passengers, flying via a German airport hub, and the two meal options are tasty German sausage, or basically inedible chicken dish, you will run out of sausage almost exactly halfway down the cabin. Load more of the sausage.
People have been posting some great photos from Saturday's first-ever NZ inter-league match between Wellington's Richter City and Auckland's Pirates.
Also, I'm pretty sure that Mongolia's steam trains are not “The LAST STEAM TRAINS IN THE UNIVERSE”.
That is all.
After a bit of last-minute panic I hit the airport and after a short connecting flight to Auckland, and got on one of Air NZ's nice new 777 ‘dreamliner’ services to Hong Kong.
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