Saturday, February 04, 2006
Made it to Borneo!
Smooth journey really. Arrived at Heathrow on the tube after a leisurely "early morning commute" via the Picadilly Line. At the airport i met up with Becky and eventually Elaina (who had gone to Terminal 4 by mistake...). We managed to get seats together ok and then started all the chat and exchanging of stories. A couple of drinks and a pretty good meal later i expected to sleep for most of the flight to Kuala Lumpur. It didn't work out that way, mostly due to the seat i think, so the movies took a hammering instead.
Connected at KL for the short 2 hour hop to Kota Kinabalu. As we filled out the immigration forms at KL Becky looked worried about the amount of currency she had to declare. El and i had about 650 ringitts each (about £100) but Becky said she thought she had several hundred thousand. Sure enough when we checked, all her notes had big numbers on them with lots of zeros. They also had a picture of the Indonesian president........
....her travel agent had given her currency for Borneo but hadn't checked which part of Borneo she was going to (see earlier map for explanation!).
Finally, just a little reminder for all my old friends at Amex.........
Connected at KL for the short 2 hour hop to Kota Kinabalu. As we filled out the immigration forms at KL Becky looked worried about the amount of currency she had to declare. El and i had about 650 ringitts each (about £100) but Becky said she thought she had several hundred thousand. Sure enough when we checked, all her notes had big numbers on them with lots of zeros. They also had a picture of the Indonesian president........
....her travel agent had given her currency for Borneo but hadn't checked which part of Borneo she was going to (see earlier map for explanation!).
Finally, just a little reminder for all my old friends at Amex.........
// posted by storri @ 12:55 pm 
