Watched Jane Austen’s ‘Love and Friendship’ – nice gentile classic, before settling down to sleep. Four and a half hours flying over India when we are woken with a delicious breakfast of fruit, cheese omelette and croissant with coffee. Half an hour til touch down in Yangon before a further two hours to Hanoi! These long hauls just seem to go on for ever….
An hour sitting in the plane in the pouring rain at Yangon before the final leg to Hanoi. Ham roll, fruit and tea…. another 3 episodes of Friends before touchdown – finally!
After a little wait for our bags and then finding our transfer driver at the other end of the airport, we soon found ourselves sailing through the rush hour traffic to the city centre. There was a lovely sunset as a backcloth to the city high rises.
We finally checked into our hotel just in time for our 6 o’clock meeting with our guide Hwan. My eyelids were drooping as he explained his plans for us in the coming 10 days. Then we found ourselves out for a group meal to sample the local cuisine. There were 8 of us: 3 from NZ, 2 from Oz, 2 from Oxford and one who was too tired and stayed in the hotel. More about them tomorrow.
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