Colombo, Sri Lanka

Definitely one of my most memorable trips! Sri Lanka is BEAUTIFUL! Definitely worth visiting for the friendly people, beautiful beaches, cheap shopping and SPICY food! Even their breakfasts are spicy! I was in total heaven.

So my first trip there in September 2008, we decided to go to the Elephant Sanctuary & a spice garden.

Streetside fruit stall

Awwww look at the baby elephant

Ready to go

Lovely view

 

One of my fave pics

 

Now off to the Spice Garden...

So I've been to Colombo quite a few times since then. Recently discovered an amazing seafood restaurant there. Unfortunately looking for a specific food picture on my Iphone is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Trust me though...it was good! Seafood mixed platter was the specialty and although it looked & tasted amazing, I think I would be there a week trying to finish it. I'll post the pic later if I can find it.

Calcutta/Kolkata, India

My first trip to Calcutta was in April, 2009. I remember really looking forward to it as it is our only layover in India. I can't remember if we had longer than 24 hours there but I do remember we did a lot on that trip.

First we visited Mother Theresa's orphanage & house. It was such a truly blessed visit. It is amazing how much 1 person can do.

We then made our way to visit the palace.  Was picturesque. I remember we almost got kicked out because we were not allowed to take pictures inside of the art but one of the crew kept sneaking photos. LOL!

Back to the hotel pool where we were ravaged by mosquitos...

 

 

The next morning we ventured out again to shop. City Centre Mall and New Market.

 

 

 

And that was my trip there. Been there recently as well but as the crew were not up to going out we just relaxed in the 5 star hotel. What a hard life!

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ah the jet lagged life of a cabin crew. So I finally managed to fall asleep at 9 am thinking I'd sleep in late and be fully rested for my flight at 2 am tomorrow. Instead I wake up at 3 pm and probably won't be getting a nap in before my flight. Luckily its only a short 5 hour flight to Dhaka and ever luckier I get 24 hours there. I was looking through my pictures of my past trips there and unfortunately don't have any interesting pictures to share (unless you REALLY care about what I ate and what the hotel room looked like!).

I do remember one trip however, where the crew & myself ventured out to Bangla Bazaar to go shopping. As Bangladesh produces clothes for Mango, Zara etc. we thought it would be a good idea to shop in the bazaar to get some great deals for a fraction of the cost. One of the crew had previously been to the bazaar and warned us about the "guides". Basically as soon as we got out of the taxi it was very clear that we were all tourists (4 girls & 2 guys all different nationalities). Right away we were swarmed with "guides" that wanted to help us guide our way around the enormous, confusing bazaar. They claimed to lead us right to the stalls that sold the Mango & Zara clothes (without the label) and that without their help we would never find it. Now of course this "guide" comes with a price and the crew told us we would be fine on our own.  After 45 minutes of being followed by 4 guides constantly harassing & taunting us ("You are getting farther away", "You are not going to find Mango"), we finally got so fed up and just left. The few things we saw and bargained for the guides whispered to the stall owners and suddenly the price went up for us. We managed to snag a few deals but in the end were so annoyed that we didn't bother really looking around that much.

That definitely was quite the experience though! I think if I ever venture there again I would pay for a  guide. I don't mind paying to help another make a few bucks to survive...

Adelaide, Australia

I had the pleasure of doing a 2 day trip to Adelaide, Australia in November 2012. I was especially excited since I would get to hang out with my ex-batchmate as well. Visions of vineyards danced in my head and I certainly wasn't disappointed!

 First stop on our journey - The Rocking Horse

Lol. We just did a drive by. No point getting out to walk up that!

 

 

Second stop - The Whispering Wall. So 1 person stands on one side of the wall & the second person walks all the way to the end of the wall. You can "whisper" or talk to each other and the sound of your voice carries all the way to the other end. Was pretty cool considering its quite a distance from one side to the other!

 

 

Third stop - The wineries

 

 

We had started our drive early so were both starving. Stopped off at a German restaurant/bar for some lunch. Nothing like schnitzel & some beer to keep you going!

 

 

Stunning views!

 

 

So for dinner Blake treated me to an absolutely delicious meal at an Argentinian steakhouse.  Looking at this pic still makes my mouth water. The chimmichurri sauce, those seasoned potatoes & Malbec wine paired with that.....Yummy!

 

 

As it was November, the city was already decorated for the upcoming Christmas festivities. We drove up to this display by the water. So cute!

The Malls balls ;)

 

Overall a great trip to Adelaide. Looking forward to visiting the vineyards on another trip. Was absolutely breathtaking in the Barossa Valley...and the wines not too shabby either ;)



Accra, Ghana & Abidjan, Ivory Coast

So Accra/Abidjan was my first ever layover as a cabin crew. I've done it once since then and it really is a great trip. We fly to Accra and spend 24 hours there, then a shuttle flight to Abidjan & right back to Accra for another 48 hours. I've been lucky enough to fly with incredible crew both trips and had a really FUN time. Ghana is full of really warm & friendly people. Really good restaurants as well.

Now for some pics:

I promise my other destinations will be a bit more exciting ;)

Lets try this again.....

3 years???? I could have sworn I posted on here last year. Anyhoo lets see how long I can remember to keep this going. I'm never going to remember to post after every flight so lets just go back to some previous layovers.

ENJOY!

**I apologize in advance for all the food pics that you will probably have to go through.**