Saturday, December 10, 2016

The Dream Trip Begins...

After a few days home, I am on the road again, heading to the islands of my dreams in the South Pacific. My work is taking me to the Independent State of Samoa, which will be followed by a few days off in Fiji before heading back.
In a sense this is a dream trip, albeit for work. I have been wanting to visit the region for over 30 years now. And I am finally making it!
I will be flying off to Hong Kong right now on an Asiana Boeing 767, incidentally, this will be my third flight on a Boeing 767. I will have a transit time of over 5 hours in Hong Kong, during which I shall be meeting family. From there I will fly to Nadi, Fiji, with transit halt of nearly 6 hours and then would connect to Apia, Samoa. And this promises to be a long, long nerve-wracking journey, of over 30 hours...


Plane Spotting at Incheon...


Browsing through Korean newspapers and the "National Ajumma" is gone...
And the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye is big news. They say she has been impeached for corruption. Well... which politician, the world over isn't corrupt?
My take is given the extreme degree of misogynistic undercurrents in Korean society, the political class could not tolerate a women in the seat of power, and an excuse was found to boot her out...
Who knows what the truth is?


Misogyny, work pressure and what not has made Korea a veritable "pressure cooker" that has led to a high degree of psychiatric problems and as a result the country has one of the highest suicide rates in the OECD...


A restaurant to try in Seoul...


Asiana's Airbus A320...


An Asiana Boeing 767 in the Star Alliance livery...


Young plane spotters...



Asiana's Airbus A380 bound for New York JFK...



Boarded...


And we are next to an Asiana Airbus A330...


Pushing back...



Aha - I spot an Air Seoul Airbus A320!

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