Airports, during stop-overs between flights, are a curious Limbo; full of - on the one hand - bright-eyed and excited tourists about to disembark on a Great Adventure (tm); but also the sunken-eyed, haunted-looking travellers like me, who are caught in the closest I've ever experienced to a black hole while awaiting a transfer between Hong Kong and home.
Still, it could be worse. The cute early-20s something guy near me just slumped onto the bar and started sobbing. Either that or snoring. It's hard to tell. Maybe I should buy him a drink and find out?
Hmm. No. Unshaven and sunken-eyed as I am, I probably look more like a serial killer than a prospective shoulder to cry on, let alone a romantic knight in shining, slightly jetlagged armour.
But anyway. Copenhagen was fantastic. A beautiful city, populated by warm and lovely people. I can't wait to go back. That said, given that I expressed similar sentiments and wishes about A) Glasgow, B) Dublin and C) Amsterdam in 2005, and I've yet to find the time and more importantly the finances necessary to allow me to return, we'll just take the above comments with a pinch of sodium chloride, shall we?
A full update (with pictures, dear devoted reader - aren't you just a-thrill with the thought at viewing my holiday snaps?) will be posted upon my return to Melbourne. Not immediately though. I'll be home in about nine to ten hours, but I think a shower and a good night's sleep in my own bed will be my first priority, rather than a long and detailed blog post about my experiences over the last few days of travel, bike-riding and Outgames conferencing.
One last observation about Hong Kong airport though: bloody Facebook is bloody blocked on this computer terminal! How am I supposed to cope with that? Oh the pain, the pain...
Richard
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3 comments:
airports are horible... shit i have forgotten how to speak english... i am in some awful place between english and spanish. airports? yes i digress. they´re like my spanish, somewhere in transit between somewhere else, always waiting, delayed. it is so frustrating!
welcome home, lovely man. and i actually *am* looking forward to seeing your holiday slide show, as they are the closest thing i get to travelling for now.
and may i just say, canvas is absolutely fantastic and fit to burst with life and promise?
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Aww, thanks KP - I will hopefully have travel pix up here and/or Facebook tomorrow arvo; as well as a more detailed blog post on the whole whirlwind experience.
And thanks for the kind words about Canvas too - the preview issue (and the 'official' first issue, due out Thursday night) were slightly rushed because of deadlines, but I reckon it has real potential to grow...
Hugs.
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