CKG-DUB-Rome and Venice

Long wait in Jakarta, in a fairly crowded lounge. Anne scratched her arm retrieving the blue canister from the lounge fridge as we left, but the Emirates cabin crew were on to it with disinfectant and bandages, and checks though the night/flight. We tried to sleep the whole way as it was 8pm Italy time to 330 am. Uneventful and punctual until we almost landed and did a fly-around.

Dubai Airport packed at 5am- it is about half as full now (8:20 local time)… so the shower queue diminished. We wrangled lots of ice for the few hours here for the meds: if the iceblock works for the flight, and we have a powerpoint on the train, we will have overcome our biggest logistical hurdle.

An Airbus from Dubai to Rome. Left a little late, but significantly nicer to be in than the Boeing to Dubai. Watched a few more films, while Anne continued using the chance to watch several years worth of White Lotus undisturbed. Landed around the right time, then a 500m queue for Immigration. Tomorrow is supposedly the chaos day when they switch to fingerprinting everyone, and stop stamping passports… glad we avoided that! After that - BAG WAS THERE! (Not sure now what to write about for the next week). Packed train to Rome, a wait for the Venice train (self-inflicted: we chose 4:30 as we did not want to risk the 3:30 train in case the flight/bag were late), so writing this from a cafe a Rome Station.

And so to Venice. Comfortable train left at 430 and arrived at 8:03 …a few minutes late, but we went down and around to the next platform and the train to the island left at 8:06. Then a longish (20 mins) and sweaty walk to the hotel via a small supermarket, which did not have the Woolies or IGA efficiencies. Hotel is fine so far. Guests a little lagged.

10,092 steps, 6.7km … and that was just airports and stations. Only 3 flights… but with luggage, so we will call that 6.Read more