I was up about 6 on the morning of the 14th in Calcutta. I went out to the street in front of my hotel for an egg and bread breakfast cooked by a vendor, one of several, right on the sidewalk. After breakfast I took a short walk under a bright sun and a blue sky. About 7:30 I left on a taxi to the airport through the relatively light traffic of a Sunday morning.
My flight to Bangkok, on IndiGo at a cost of $123, took off at 11. The sky was too hazy and cloudy to see much from the plane. We landed in Bangkok about 3 after a two and a half hour flight. From the airport I took the metro and then a taxi to the hotel in the Banglamphu neighborhood near the Chao Phraya River where I usually stay in Bangkok. Rain started to fall as I arrived at the hotel. I ate delicious Pad Thai for dinner about 5:30 from one of the many outdoor vendors in the neighborhood. The rain stopped, though the air was still very humid. I walked to Khao San Road and back. Considerably fewer foreign tourists were on the streets than when I had been here the previous November.
I left the hotel about 7 the next morning and took the Chao Phraya river boat and then the metro to Bumrungrad Hospital for my annual physical and other medical and dental appointments. Leaving the hospital, I walked north to a canal and took a canal boat west to the end of the line, and then walked from there back to my hotel.
The next morning about 10 I hired a taxi to take me back to Bumrungrad for my ten year colonoscopy. I took a taxi back to my hotel about 7 and then a van to the airport at 9.
My Air China flight to Beijing, the first of three flights back to Saipan, left at 1:40 in the morning. I slept on the flight, which arrived in Beijing just after 7 on a sunny morning. It took me until 9 to sort out the transfer to my next flights. I had hoped to find the NBA finals game on television somewhere, but didn't. The airport had few places to eat, too. I had expected the services at Beijing's modern airport to be more extensive. It didn't seem very busy, either. I had a long layover and spent the day reading newspapers and a book. Rain fell in the afternoon and then the sky cleared.
My Asiana flight to Incheon in Korea left at 4:15 in the afternoon, flying mostly over the sea. It arrived at 6:45 and I left at 9:15 on another Asiana flight, a 747 full of Korean tourists, to Saipan. We encountered lots of turbulence over southern South Korea and over the island of Kyushu in Japan.
The plane landed in Saipan at 2 in the morning on the 18th. My car was waiting at the airport and I drove home , arriving before 3 and going to bed shortly after.
My flight to Bangkok, on IndiGo at a cost of $123, took off at 11. The sky was too hazy and cloudy to see much from the plane. We landed in Bangkok about 3 after a two and a half hour flight. From the airport I took the metro and then a taxi to the hotel in the Banglamphu neighborhood near the Chao Phraya River where I usually stay in Bangkok. Rain started to fall as I arrived at the hotel. I ate delicious Pad Thai for dinner about 5:30 from one of the many outdoor vendors in the neighborhood. The rain stopped, though the air was still very humid. I walked to Khao San Road and back. Considerably fewer foreign tourists were on the streets than when I had been here the previous November.
I left the hotel about 7 the next morning and took the Chao Phraya river boat and then the metro to Bumrungrad Hospital for my annual physical and other medical and dental appointments. Leaving the hospital, I walked north to a canal and took a canal boat west to the end of the line, and then walked from there back to my hotel.
The next morning about 10 I hired a taxi to take me back to Bumrungrad for my ten year colonoscopy. I took a taxi back to my hotel about 7 and then a van to the airport at 9.
My Air China flight to Beijing, the first of three flights back to Saipan, left at 1:40 in the morning. I slept on the flight, which arrived in Beijing just after 7 on a sunny morning. It took me until 9 to sort out the transfer to my next flights. I had hoped to find the NBA finals game on television somewhere, but didn't. The airport had few places to eat, too. I had expected the services at Beijing's modern airport to be more extensive. It didn't seem very busy, either. I had a long layover and spent the day reading newspapers and a book. Rain fell in the afternoon and then the sky cleared.
My Asiana flight to Incheon in Korea left at 4:15 in the afternoon, flying mostly over the sea. It arrived at 6:45 and I left at 9:15 on another Asiana flight, a 747 full of Korean tourists, to Saipan. We encountered lots of turbulence over southern South Korea and over the island of Kyushu in Japan.
The plane landed in Saipan at 2 in the morning on the 18th. My car was waiting at the airport and I drove home , arriving before 3 and going to bed shortly after.
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