Made it to Hong Kong. Wasn’t a long flight but I am exhausted. With only 4.5 hours of sleep the night before, last night I got 2 hours and 50 minutes. My Apple Watch and sleep app track it well.
Not a huge layover here; just four hours. Seems like most of it has been spent walking through the airport and going through the security theatre once again.
All that seems to happen is they scan your stuff again, and make you throw away the water you brought on the plane from the last airport. It’s absurd. What do they think people are doing on the plane?
The procedures aren’t particularly onerous. Take out your laptop and tablet, put the rest in the tray, and keep your shoes on. No x-ray. I usually add 🖕to my image, and no one ever says anything.
In the Bangkok airport they seem particularly obsessed by power banks, and tried to claim mine didn’t indicate the capacity. Annoyed, I flipped it around and held it three inches from the guy’s nose so he could read it. Make sure your power banks have the capacity on them! I have this sneaking suspicion they have a side hustle selling power banks on Facebook.
It’s cool to be in Hong Kong, even though I am not going into the city itself. One day hopefully!
I count it as a visit to Hong Kong and, I guess, China. Technically I am not in the country because I haven’t cleared customs and all that, but I will leave the definition up to the armchair lawyers.
I hope I will be able to sleep on the next flight. The seats on the Hong Kong Air A320 were terrible. Airplane seats just suck. I need to get rich so I can fly business class and lay down on the plane. I might still be too cheap to pay extra for it though! Haha!
Whoever came up with the quote, and I am paraphrasing, that travel is about the journey, not the destination, obviously never flew economy, because the journey sucks!
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