Ok well I guess I better get this going! Im still not sure how it will be to upload pictures but we can start with words, right? right..
So, Monday (Oct 22) we got up at 5 am and caught a taxi to Heathrow for the first of our two flights. We were about 20 min late in take off making us late to land of course. Then having a few planes in our way in Mumbai, we had to wait on the tarmack to disembark. Not great when you are already late arriving and have a connecting flight to catch in an hour and a half!
I'll pause for a quick moment to say that we flew wtih Jet Airways and really, it was great. Tons of leg room (even in the cheap seats!), great selection of shows and movies to watch and the food was pretty decent! Not fabulous but not terrible either. I'd say on par with what I would get from a starbucks, ya know? Pre-packaged, and not what you crave, but it will do. And better than most airline food for sure! All in all: would fly again! (and we will..)
Where was I... right! Mumbai airport. So we finally get off of our plane, board a bus to the terminal, run to our next gate.. to find a security check. That was not moving. There were a bunch of us headed to Thailand and a bunch more headed to Hong Kong on a flight that left 10 min before ours. And slooooow security. After a time, we finally got through and rushed to our boarded flight. After another wait (!) on a bus to get to the plane that is... This second flight was only 4 hours as they got us in 30 min early. Usually a good thing but as we already had the day to kill in Bangkok, not great.
Not a terrible amount to report from there.... Took the train to the metro to the other train station and bought our ticket to Koh Tao. And then had to decide what to do with the next 12 hours! It was super hot and we had our backpacks, even if they are small. We wandered to a shopping street, got some street pad thai, changed some money and wandered some more.
Oh, I bought harem pants. For all that I made fun of them in Denmark (and probably other places) I have some. These were all black. Just so much lighter than the cargo pants I was wearing, good for the beach (and sleeping in turns out) and well.. yeah. I cant say much more. But there it is.
After some hours of wandering, sitting on benches and almost getting lost, our super long walk got us back to the train station where we had some snacks and drinks and all but passed out in our seats while we waited.
At last our train arrived and we were able to board. It was a sleeper train so after about an hour (I suppose, i was sleeping sitting up, which I usually cant do..) the train... guy... came and pulled the beds down...
And that, was day 1! I'll write more in a bit concerning our arrival and adventures from there.. and see about getting some pictures up. This particular computer keeps making ticking sounds so Im betting this wont be the one...
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