Flying home
Note: this is a post I wrote on the plane a while ago… just found it lying around on my laptop and decided to post it.
I’m on the plane now from Shanghai to Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Right now we’re about four or five hours in, which means we’re getting close to half-way. From Schiphol we then have a connection to Manchester and a train to catch to Doncaster.
I’ve arranged for my Dad to drive my car to Doncaster train station to save me an hour on the way back down to London. Even then I’ll probably not get back home until pretty late.
The last few days have been spent in Shanghai at a nice four-star hotel with a view of the Bund. It’s all been very relaxed and we’ve spent the time shopping for gifts, doing a little sightseeing and browsing around camera shops.
Last night we took a one hour boat along the Bund to take in the spectacular lights. This wasn’t too expensive and was well worth the time and money. A longer trip would be unnecessary.
On this holiday I’ve finished off The Life of Pi; Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami; and just yesterday I read the last page of The Great Gatsby. All were very good books and kept me interested the full wa through. I’ll have to start A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami when I get back into the swing on things.
Anyway, hopefully I’ll get a few photos sorted over the coming weeks. I’m hoping for a few fairly good ones, but overall I don’t think I’ve done quite as well as previous trips. Anyway, I won’t really find out until I sit down and sort through them.
Time for a sleep now. See everybody soon.
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