In transit at the airport.
I just know that you will all nash your teeth in envy when I say that I am on my way to Paris. For work, not play. I'll be back on Sunday hopefully with a photo or two.
Is it just me or is Hong Kong airport counter-intuitive? Perhaps you just have to have been here once before to get the system. I disembarked from my Qantas flight to find no simple explanation on how to find my way to the transit area or an airline lounge. It didn't help that I arrived at 5.30am local time and there was no-one at any of the information desks.
So I followed the time-honoured tradition of milling with the crowds until I worked out that I had to line up for another 30 mins to go through security, again. But find a lounge? Had to ring Firegazer in Sydney to look that up on the interweb. No clear signage.
Changi airport much better.
So here I am brushing up on my basic French phrases. Despite working for a French company I haven't managed to re-ignite my schoolgirl French.
I figure that I need to be competent in catching a taxi and finding my hotel. Alarmingly my phrase book notes that an important phrase to know when catching a taxi will be: S'il vous plait roulez plus lentement.
Please slow down.
Okay, wish me luck.
7 comments:
I think HK is a fabulous airport! Thr trick though is to go local. Not sure what the Qantas lounge is like but if you are wiyh One World you could use one of the multiple Cathay Lounges - all really good and they connect directly to Paris.
Also I thoroughly recommend the chocolates in the lounge restaurant not something I would have waited 20 minutes for in Fairlies's test. The dim sim (same place) is also good.
I quite like HK airport - so big though!
And off to Paris! What a great business trip. Hope you get a little 'spare time' there.
Oh do have fun in Paris! Lucky you!
I love HK airport - it fascinates me to see who's there and I just love the sheer scale of it, and walking those long, long corridors with your hand luggage in one of their little triangular carts. It's a brilliant design.
It also has a fab travellers' lounge - pay $20 and you're in. I'm not a fan of the Qantas Club lounges in OS airports.
I don't mind HK airport, but then I've never had to transit through it, only arrive and depart. That said, when I was leaving there in December it did take some time to find the Qantas Club.
Have fun in Paris.
Hope you at least get some time to enjoy a macaroon within view of the Eiffel Tower
You'll love Paris. My first visit was an overnight passing through en route to Nice when I was 16 and it hasn't palled since. Coming from the still austere post-war 50's in Edinburgh it blew my mind especially taking into account they'd had a far worse time than we'd had being defeated, occupied and fought in. Why hadn't we recovered like that? No wonder we're referred to as the Dour Scots. It takes a life-time to explore though. Your French will recover by leaps and bounds.
Our reading group has just read your July book. Having known someone in the Resistance I'm surprised that she didn't even hint at them bearing in mind she was trying to convey what life was like for them all at the time. Enjoyed it otherwise.
Re: French - buy the French equivalent of the Daily Telegraph and try reading it. It has a limited vocab and simple stories. My pronunciation is atrocious, but reading the local rag each day reignited my schoolboy Frog.
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