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05.03.11 Auckland to Brunei and Brunei
Our night flight from Auckland was delayed by an hour whilst the engineers took out a broken pin from the undercarriage, sourced a new one, and fitted it. No worries, the pilot came out to explain what was going on so all us ladies instantly forgave him. The earthquake has had an effect on new Zealanders travel, so the good news is that Damian and I had 3 seats each and 3 blankets, 3 pillows, 3 Tvs, etc etc but not 3 meals!!! Consequently after 9 hours flying we arrived here in Brunei at 8.05am very well refreshed and breakfasted.
The hotel is lovely, as is the room. I have had my first bath for 9 weeks….I mean showers are ok, but there's nothing quite like a bath.
After taking our complementary fruit cocktail we took a taxi in town, did a little shopping, lunched and took a 90minutes water taxi tour to see the water villages, jungle, mangroves, palace from the water and the proboscis monkeys…all very good, oh and a taxi back to the hotel. Damian has just immersed himself in the swimming pool, I don't want to spoil the effects of my luxurious bath!
We have a couple of hours before it is 6.30pm and our private transport will take us back to the airport for our 7.00pm boarding ….I love Brunei flights!
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