Going home

Back in Singapore again. Last stop on the trip. The flight over over from Palawan goes without any problems of any kind, and I can pick up my luggage at Changi as I am suppose to do. I have heard a lot of that it is always risky to fly over Manilla, and that they misplace your luggage all the time. So far, I have not had that experience, thanks for that.

I am staying in my usual hostel, River City in, at Hong Kong street. Since it is Thursday, it is the weekly CS meeting at Zsofi Tapas bar in Little India, and I went up there after a shower and some Vietnamese food on Circular road close to the hostel. Cheep and good food. I do not know anyone at the CS meeting, but I am pretty early and find the others from CS and join them at their table, and move a bit around during the night and talk to a bunch of nice people, mostly people living in Singapore, it is a nice meeting.

I do not have much planned for Singapore, shopping and just prepare for going home and back to work. I go around on the mrt, checking out some stores in shoppingmalls around, without shopping that much. Or, I get me a new Lifeproof cover for my phone, which was on my list of shopping. It is not cheaper than in Norway, so it is nothing to save. I also get me a haircut, that is cheaper than home. Since I have found some good sushi places in Singapore, I just have to have me some sushi lunches, and I manage to overeat on sushi on, terrible, but it is just so good (not the over eating part).

On Friday is Heidi inviting me to join her and some friends of her for a smal party in her home. We are about 10-12 people, having some beer and food, playing games and talks. It is really nice, and I enjoy it. I am leaving "early" around 2 AM, it would have been nice to stay longer. But since I am sleeping in a dorm, and will be woken up early the next day when the others in the room start to move around, I have to get some sleep. Thanks Heidi for one more good experience in Singapore :-)

Sunday in my last day in Singapore, I have a late plane out, 23:05. Or do I? Around 1500 I get a sms telling me that my flight is 10 hours delayed. So what do I do know? I am first thinking that I have to book me one more night at the hostel, but after some reading on the internet of my rights as a passenger, I find out that I should go out the the airport as I was suppose to, and leave it to Lufthansa to take care of me, as they should do. So I go out to Changi, and go straigth for the Lufthansa counter. Talk to some nice staff there, I they tell me that I can go to a waiting bus that will take me and others to a hotel, and then the bus will take ut back to the airport the next day. Excelent! The hotel is great, maybe the best room I have had for the hole trip. Next morning are we back at the airport, and we leave arould 12 hours to late. Lufthansa have booked me on to a new flight from Frankfurt over Oslo to Stavanger. And I am home 10 hours delayed. I guess when one first should be this much delayed, Lufthansa must be one of the best companies to be delayed on. Very good service!

The worst part of the trip was Oslo airport, where the security was going crazy on all passengers, checking us extreamly good. I had to empty my carry on, even if I have gone trough lots of securities with the same pack several times the last weeks. I was almost going out of patience with them, but after all they are doing an importing job to keep us safe, so I do think I manage to keep most of my frustration inside but not all of it. A part of the reason for my frustration was that I was very short of time, I had 1 hour to change planes. And in that 1 hour I had to pick up my check in luggage, go to costume, drop my check in luggage and pass security. It all vent well at all, and I got on time for my last flight.

Home sweet home! :-)

 

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