SEA06: First day: getting there

To follow the good traditions, the journey started by going to bed late doing the last arrangements in for the trip, and having to get up painfully early to get to the CDG airport.

Usual queue for the check in, but with a very colorful and cosmopolitan melange of people. Tourists, families going back home for their holidays, and businessmen. Just in front of us, there was a French girl, that looked exactly like Marie Charion, from the concert we went in Paris last Friday!! (No, unfortunately it wasn't her... :-/ ).



Take off on time, and off we go, crossing Europe, then flying across Turkey, the Bosporus, Iraq, with its traditional fireworks in the 'banlieue' of Baghdad, and the view of the Tigris river; Kuwait, the Persian Gulf, and finally we landed in Bahrain for our transit.

In Bahrain, we could see important differences in commertial and cultural practices with respect toEurope. Some two hours later, we took our second flight of the day, and after watching Ice Age II on board and sleeping a few hours, we arrived to Bangkok and got a taxi to a beautiful and rather ritzy hotel in the center of the city.