Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Australia 2000 trip
Soon I'll be filling you in about our trip to Australia in 2000
Amsterdam-Sydney 2 November 2000
We flew with Garuda as we have special memories to our first flight together in 1985.....
Then Garuda's flight went form Amsterdam to Sydney with 5 stops. As we liked that we tried to plan the same flight . Unfortunatly they did not have such a flight any more so we composed one of our own in four steps.
Amsterdam - Singapore- Jakarta-Den Pasar-Sydney.
But we had not counted on delays, so our flight took 38 hours.
When we arived in Sydney we were paged. Wondering what that could be we went to see the pager and he directed us to costems.
What happend is that our luggage was left behind in Bali! So we had to start without a fresh set of clothes.
Picking up our camper
We had arranged a camper in Holland and we could pick it up at a hotel near the airport.
We went there to find nobody of Batrak. It took them an hour to come to the hotel with the camper.
So after a flight with 4 hours delay, loss of luggage we had another hour of waiting in a hotel lobby.
When the lady finally arrived she acted as if nothing happened and she acted almost as if we were disturbing her.
We checked the camper and a noticed that the tiers had strange bumps. I was ensured that the tiers were in good condition and that we could have a save trip. We did not know then that Batrak was not the friendliest company to do business with.
Seeing old friends
After picking up our camper we went to North Sydney to see old friends. But I can assure you that it was not the most pleasant drive I ever made, as by now it was rush hour. Also it was my first time driving a camper with the wheel on the wrong side of the car! Also I had to get used to shifting gears with my left hand.
But we just did fine and found our way from the airport to Allambie Heights.
Amsterdam-Sydney 2 November 2000
We flew with Garuda as we have special memories to our first flight together in 1985.....
Then Garuda's flight went form Amsterdam to Sydney with 5 stops. As we liked that we tried to plan the same flight . Unfortunatly they did not have such a flight any more so we composed one of our own in four steps.
Amsterdam - Singapore- Jakarta-Den Pasar-Sydney.
But we had not counted on delays, so our flight took 38 hours.
When we arived in Sydney we were paged. Wondering what that could be we went to see the pager and he directed us to costems.
What happend is that our luggage was left behind in Bali! So we had to start without a fresh set of clothes.
Picking up our camper
We had arranged a camper in Holland and we could pick it up at a hotel near the airport.
We went there to find nobody of Batrak. It took them an hour to come to the hotel with the camper.
So after a flight with 4 hours delay, loss of luggage we had another hour of waiting in a hotel lobby.
When the lady finally arrived she acted as if nothing happened and she acted almost as if we were disturbing her.
We checked the camper and a noticed that the tiers had strange bumps. I was ensured that the tiers were in good condition and that we could have a save trip. We did not know then that Batrak was not the friendliest company to do business with.
Seeing old friends
After picking up our camper we went to North Sydney to see old friends. But I can assure you that it was not the most pleasant drive I ever made, as by now it was rush hour. Also it was my first time driving a camper with the wheel on the wrong side of the car! Also I had to get used to shifting gears with my left hand.
But we just did fine and found our way from the airport to Allambie Heights.
