Up bright and early at 4:30 am for a 5:00 am shuttle to the airport. I made a quick checkout and while I was waiting on the shuttle bus they brought out a "takeaway breakfast" for two of us since we had dining vouchers and the breakfasts didn't start until 6. It was a tray of 3 meat dumplings, a wrapped triangle of rice and meat, something unidentifiable in strips, something else unidentifiable in strips but with suction bits (Octopus?), and a hard bo...

I'm sitting on the Air China flight, returning from Ulaanbaator to Beijing after being unable to land due to bad weather, so I thought I might as well start a daily log. It's now 6 May so I'll write retrospectively for 5 May. This morning started out very early. I got up at 4 am after only a few hours of sleep from packing the night before. I was going to take the train down to Sydney airport but Michelle said she could drive me instead. It was really nice t...