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| An interesting modern building |
Woke to a gloriously summery day
today. Had an earlyish breakfast and then out for a last wander around. We
wanted to have another look at some of the antique shops, and came across a
number of buildings we hadn’t already seen. We have really enjoyed Prague and
are a little sad to leave. We could easily spend another 3-4 days here.
Marched back to the hotel to arrive at
one minute to noon, with checkout due at noon, not that it really matters. We collected
our bags and trundled off to the railway station. It was very straightforward
to pay for the bus to take us to the airport, and only had to wait 20mins for
it to arrive. It was amazing – a 30min trip out to the airport for only NZ$2
each. That’s the cheapest airport transport we have ever used. Compared to the
cost of NZ$45 each for the 50min trip from Mulhouse airport back to Freiburg (after
we had dropped off the Peugeot lease car), it was a very pleasant surprise.
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| Old Skodas used for tourism |
To the airport in plenty of time and
looking forward to just kicking back and watching a movie or two on the 6hr
flight to Dubai. We are due to arrive there at midnight and leave for the
onward leg to NZ at around 10am the next morning. We have always found
overnighting in Dubai (courtesy of Emirates) works out pretty well.
The flight ended up leaving a little
late so we arrived at Dubai about 12.20am, and then had to circle for another
20 minutes. It was a good flight and we caught up on a few movies, though the
plane was ancient with an old-style watch-what-is-currently-playing system. relatively promptly onto the transfer bus to the Emirates hotel and finally into bed at
2am. As with previous times, the immigration queues were slow, the Arab staff arrogant
and surly, while the hired-help Filipinos and Asians were cheerful and
pleasant. The class structure riles me a lot.
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| Packing to go |
