Shanghai to Beez
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 24 May 2018 22:57
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Shanghai to
Beez
 We left the Maglev train and took the
escalator up to Departures. We needed to check in at
B, a very long bimble. We got in the long queue and waited fifteen minutes for
the ground staff to begin the process, plenty of time to people watch as case
after case was opened on the floor and ‘rummaged in’. The only huge pleasure was
the fact that no one held an umbrella aloft, we can relax. An hour later we were
clutching seat tickets and with G and H we assumed we were next to each other.
Air Asia is cheap but you have to pay for your seat choice, about eight pounds
each.........
 Immigration was painless, why we
needed two pages next to each other..... all we had was a discreet red stamp,
mine in a small corner nowhere near my Visa and the same for Bear.......... Once
through security we had a very long bimble to our
gate, the very last one. No peace as a woman sat behind us with a shrill,
nasally voice who shouted across the room to her friends. Great, at midnight
when my stomp measure clicked over to zero I took the opportunity to march up
and down the whole area and got in four thousand before loading. The Chinese
ability to queue jump proved yet another irritation but there we are. Up the
back of the aeroplane, hand luggage stowed we found our seats were each side of
the gangway. How cross were we. Two friends were also split and a nice young man
moved so they could be together and he kindly swopped with me so we ended up
together.
 We sat for a while as the full flight
loaded. I don’t think we have looked out at such a long
airport building in a very long time.
  We took off more or less on time at
01:20 for the six hour flight to KL. Not a bit sorry to leave Shanghai behind.
  The first time we have ever been on a
night flight when the lights were only dimmed at take off and landing. Bear
found a way to block some of the light with his
‘doughnut’. As we came in to KL the sun was getting
his hat on.
 Painlessly through Immigration as
always, we had an hour or so to wait for our nine o’clock bus, settled in the back two seats as is our ‘norm’ we slept
pretty well and arrived in Sitiawan at 14:00. We asked our taxi driver if he
would mind waiting an hour outside the supermarket and he was quite OK as he had
some personal shopping to do. Fifty minutes and the weeks worth of shopping we
need until we set off again, we were pulling up to Beez around half
three.
    A quick circum-ped around the girl
and we do believe her paint job is done. YAY and
thrice YAY. I think it was about her eighth attempt and we will have a good look
once rested but we are very hopeful. All well on board. Unpack shopping, hand
luggage and grab smellies from case. Make up the bed, have a shower, chicken
salad and settle to a couple of episodes of Longmire until the eyes needed an
early night.
ALL IN ALL VERY LONG TWENTY
FOUR HOURS, SO GOOD TO BE HOME
A VERY LONG DAY THAT WENT WENT
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