Hanging out in airports

I started to write this post waiting for my flight from Kuala Lumpur, but time ran out before my boarding call.

No matter how good an airport is, and KLIA is very good as far as airports go, hanging around in them is not fun. In fact, I struggle to think of more boring ways to spend time. At least at KLIA they have free wireless internet so I could sit in Starbucks with an iced coffee, surf the web and clear a few emails. Beats sitting around reading the paper or staring into space I suppose.

I’m now in the lounge at Sydney waiting for my connecting flight to Canberra. I sure picked a great time to fly via Sydney …didn’t think 0f APEC when I booked my tickets. More security and waiting around than usual.

Since finishing work yesterday, I’ve spent 30 minutes in a taxi to KL Sentral, 30 minutes on the KLIA Expres train (great service by the way - from the middle of KL to the airport in 28 minutes, as their advertising says), 4 hours in the airport, 8 hours on the plane, and now a couple of hours in Sydney. All the fun of travel!!!

(Update) And of course any flight to Canberra would not be complete without the interminable wait first for your luggage to get to the carousel (must be vying for Australia’s slowest service) and then for a taxi to show up at the rank. And what is it with the advertising in the arrivals area for warships and fighter aircraft …. am I supposed to get inspired to think “ah, I’ve got a lazy billion sitting around, just what I need, an amphibious warfare ship and a few fighter jets to go with it”.