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Monday 06 May 2024
Highlights: Universal Studios Singapore
The last day of this trip with a fun activity had suddenly arrived. After a comfortable sleep in Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Hotel we took our main bags to be checked in to the Jewel Early Bag Check in facility. For Jetstar this allows you to drop your bags 12 hours before the flight.
(more…)Sunday 05 May 2024
Highlights: The Jewel Water Show
One of the major downsides of living in Australia is how far away for the majority of the world we are. Returning back takes a long time. The first leg getting back was Split to Helsinki (3 hours), than a major transit (8 hours) followed by Helsinki to Singapore (13 hours).
Today was the Helsinki to Singapore flight (review here). The positives were having an empty seat next to me (which Darby had as well) and the flight was faster than scheduled by one hour (‘only’ 12 hours 20 minutes).
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Finnair
Date: 5 May 2024
Gate: 42
Seat: 34D & 34H (Economy Class Seats)
Plane: Airbus 350-900
Boarded: 23:52
Pushback: 00:23 (Scheduled 00:25)
Arrived: 17:43 (Scheduled 18:35)
Duration: 12 hour 20 minutes
Distance: 9,271 kms
Tour Title: Croatia and the Balkans
Tour Company: G Adventures
Tour Leader: Nadya Ginzburg
Cities Visited: Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Mostar, Kotor, Dubrovnik, Hvar, Split
Countries Visited: Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia.
Dates: Saturday 20 April 2024 to Saturday 04 May 2024
Duration: 15 days
Tour Type: Classic
Tour Itinerary (PDF) and Journal Entries
Saturday 04 May 2024
Highlights: Finnair Non-Schengen Business Class Lounge
Today is the start of the long journey home. Six of us had organised to go to the airport together – Theresa, Ivan, Megan, Alexa, Darby and myself. We had breakfast together and order an Uber van. T
he vehicle that showed up however was not a van, if we had somehow gotten in it would have been a clown car! Our second Uber however could handle 6 passengers, a nice way to keep costs low, especially if the airport a little bit away.
(more…)When visited: Saturday 04 May 2024
Time of day: Late Afternoon to Late Evening
Operator: Finnair (Linked to the Oneworld Alliance)
Rating: 4.0 / 5
Finnair
Date: 04 May 2024
Gate: 4
Seat: 15A & 16A (Economy Class Seats)
Plane: Airbus 320
Boarded: 11:20 (tarmac boarding)
Pushback: 12:08 (Scheduled 11:50)
Arrived: 16:14 (Scheduled 15:40)
Duration: 3 hours 06 minutes
Distance: 1,956 kms
Friday 03 May 2024
Highlights: Smooth Ferry Crossing, Exploring Diocletian’s Palace, Farewelling our group
Early morning start as we needed to drop our bags off for transfer to the ferry at 6.30 am. With the breakfast buffet opening at 6.30 am and us needing to walk to the ferry at 7 am today was not the day to be late. It turned out the weather was overcast meaning that yesterday’s full day got the best weather.
(more…)Thursday 02 May 2024
Highlights: Enjoying Palmizana Island
Today was a day of leisure on Hvar with a morning visit to Palmizana Island. First up I was woken up early by a crying toddler 😦 But breakfast helped get the day back on track before our cruise to Pakleni Island.
(more…)Wednesday 01 May 2024
Highlights: Ferry to Hvar
With a 2 pm departure from Dubrovnik Darby and me were keen to get back down to the Old Town and use the Cable Car for a different prespective of the area. Unfortunately just as we were about to buy our ticket they shut down the cable car due to bad weather.
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Nathan's Insights 