Pre Trip Travel Day
Well I have resurrected the faithful travel blog that I first began on our 1st trip to Europe in 2007! It's been 18 yrs & 302 posts...a lot of typing late at night (or I would never have remembered everything!). I also got clever & started posting 2 days of travel together in one post lol 😊.
We have been reminded this week that there is a lot to do to get out the door for a month away for us & our precious puppy dogs, but we did ok & got going this morning at 8:30am from home. Twizel was 6C, but a lovely crisp dry cold, then we were off - stopped at the famous Fairlie pie shop for the tradition of a pie on the way thru when heading north, today was salmon/ bacon & a beef/beer/ cheese pie...omg yum 🤤 .
A bit of a long trip to Christchurch as an unexpected road closure & detour added an extra 1/2 hr to the drive. Arrived up there around 1 pm, then dropped our babies to our wonderful friends Pam & Gordon who love them like we do. Caught up with them then Pam drove us in to the Novotel at Christchurch airport. They will keep our car for us as well😊.
Had dinner at the hotel restaurant then went over to the airport for a wander & a cuppa/muffin for dessert. The domestic departure hall was chocka at 6:30 pm, lots of flights going out but no arrivals atm.
Walked back for showers & into bed - we are shattered as it's been a very busy few weeks. We are over to the terminal around 8 am tomorrow, for our flights Christchurch -> Singapore -> Zurich.
Day 1, Christchurch NZ - Singapore - Zurich
We had a pretty good sleep last night – the Novotel beds are always amazing :-). Decided to get up just before dawn and go for a brisk walk together around the airport since we will be sitting pretty much for the next 35 hours, was lovely and the airport was all quiet.
Back for showers and got ourselves ready before the stroll over to check in.
Luckily, I looked at our boarding passes as we were walking away, the lady had printed two sets of boarding passes for Graeme and none for me, right through to Zürich, so that would've been fun at the boarding gate as they were all his seats! Went back to the service desk and they fixed them, then we went through to the lounge for a little bite to eat and a few hours before our flight.
We are flying Singapore airlines - the first flight is on an A350–900 to Singapore, then we have an 8hr transit wait 😳😣, so have booked a room at the T3 ambassador transit hotel at Changi. That way we can have a freshen up and maybe a bit of a nap.
Then we fly Singapore to Zürich on a 777–300ER. We will definitely need to try to get some decent sleep on this leg as we arrive in Zurich at 10 am & want to make the most of the day we have there!
4 comments:
Up up and away!
Sounds like an adventure before your adventure has begun! Enjoy! X
I did my Covid quarantine at the Chch Novotel - it was lovely looking down over the runway to the mountains 😍
Yum they have fairly good pies there!
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