18th January - Rektango revisited - Hobart to KL - gypsytwitchers

Sunday 18^th January 2015

My beloved MacBook Air dried out overnight so it is now up and running again.  I am very relieved…I had sad and distressing dreams about it all night…

Step #1 of the return to 2XS…

Friday was frantically busy, with many last-minute jobs and farewells.  And a brief visit to the courtyard in Salamanca Place, which was absolutely heaving with happy people- Rektango was back, playing up a storm!  I caught up with about a dozen people I hadn’t seen in the past year or so, then off to eat a delicious fish curry at Katy and Jeff’s.

We flew reasonably comfortably from Melbourne to KL.  It all felt interminable, as long flights always do, but we had three seats between the of us so there was the possibility of putting down those squeezy armrests and actually being able to move our elbows.

Lake Eyre below

And there was much prettiness below us.  Puffy white clouds with pretty shadows.    And a majestic sweeping vista of Lake Eyre.

We stayed overnight in the airport Tune Hotel, thank goodness.  It would NOT have been fun to wait in yet another interminable series of queues to get onto the flight to Manila.  Much better to have a proper sleep, horizontal, and not upright in a narrow seat on a crowded plane, dribbling ignominiously and making snuffling sounds… (I observed those around us yesterday and there was much dribbling and snuffling…)

In the hotel foyer I met Eleanor, from Melbourne, who had been on the same plane.  She was waiting to see if she could possibly get the power connected in her room – not an unreasonable request – while we were checking in.  I was very happy to have met her because she has forwarded me the website she and her husband work on

www.gypsytwitchers.com

and it is very wonderful.  They are bird watchers and travel the world for three months at a time, taking fabulous photos.  This time they will have six weeks in Sri Lanka and a further six weeks in northern India.  So watch their space!