Reporting from Hong-Kong

It was kinda nice to arrive here. Flight map showed all the familiar cities and I knew what to expect when arriving, last year I was here 6th of September. Airport has been transformed quite a bit though, it looks nice. My flights so far have gone well, no major turbulence or delays or any other hassles. Only thing was that I had to claim my baggage in London Heathrow and do another check-in 'cause Estonian Air does not have baggage contract with Cathay Pacific :( All went smoothly with that so no biggie at all.

I'm not sure how I managed to get even few good hours of sleep on the last flight. Managed to have a dream even where one of my friends got stuck in airplane restroom :). Maybe the ability to sleep on the flights comes with age? No clue, but I'm definitely happy about it. Hopefully now I will only need to sleep 1 day instead of 3 days to get back on track once I arrive in the destination :D Kidding, no time to sleep during vacation ;)

Hunger bites so food hunting starts now. Some stretches for my back and legs are in order as well (oh how I'm dreaming about running). Next flight coming up in 4 hours.
Hugs!

about 40 minutes to go

last set of e-mails have been sent. sitting at the airport, listening to music, tweeting, facebook and staring at the dark clouds outside. i have not snapped out of the daily hassles yet. yesterday was a long day.. preparations for Long Distance Triathlon started at 6am for me and event finished 11:30pm. it was a tough, fun, exciting and a happy day. i'm so proud of all of you who competed and all of you who assisted with organizing the event. i'm a lucky person to have such good people around me!

this morning alarm went off 9am, good solid 8h sleep, new morning full of hassles started. all in all i managed and i managed good. now there are 17 flights waiting for me in the next 6 weeks and then i'll be back where i started from. but that i won't think about before i'm off the last flight ;) .. and that won't be anytime soon :D

life is sooooo gooood :)
you all take care and be good!

stay tuned! liftoff coming up shortly :D

about 40 hours to go

I have finished packing of my check-in luggage. Now either I'm getting very good at packing or I have just totally missed about half the things I will need on my trip. The problem (not entirely sure that is a problem of course) is that the bag is half empty :) All the things in my list are in there plus things to bring to Ave plus things for her friend and my back bag is half empty still! Too unrealistic. Good thing about it is of course that once I get to Brisbane and hand some things over I'll have even less weight to drag around :D weheee! Still it makes me think I have totally missed something. I guess I will find out soon enough :)

Last load of laundry is spinning away in the washer, big back bag is packed, carry-on bag contents are spread all over the couch and I have about 40h till it's time to do the check-in. Meanwhile my time is filled with a 20h triathlon event I'm in charge of, starting tomorrow morning at 6am, a bit of rest tonight and tomorrow night, say about 2x6h, so it seems that I still have 8h to spare - that is a whole day! Perhaps I'll treat myself for 8h sleep before getting to the airport :)

Vacation does not start before I finally sit on the plane so there is still bits to go till I can confirm to be on vacation.

technology rules :)

In order to keep you all up to date with my doings I have added twitter updates to my travel blog. It shows last 3 updates from my Twitter account. Through Twitter I can send updates from my mobile so I can send updates from anywhere now :) Oh the fun! I'll be testing it in the following couple of weeks. Also feel free to use RSS reader to get my new posts to your e-mail immediately.

About my travel planning and progress, well, not much to tell. My friend Ave who I'll visit in Brisbane is doing great work on figuring out our plans there. We will also travel to Sydney together. It will be so great to see her!

Currently I'm doing some local tourism in Võru, heading over to Tartu shortly and then on to Leigo Järvemuusika festival in the evening :)