Here we go! Finally Easter is coming and it’s time to relax a bit and have a nice holiday exploring Asia!
5 destinations in the plan: Thailand staying in Phuket, Singapore, Malaysia staying in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Thailand again but this time staying in Bangkok!

Helsinki 6.00 +2GTM
Helsinki is cold… 3°C, it has been too long I have been dreaming a nice beach
Wake up at 6am… and still have to prepare the luggages. The flight to Amsterdam is leaving at 14.50 from Helsinki.
I feel a bit sick but Asia is waiting for us so… no hesitation and oh… let me introduce my travel mate… Sina, she is finnish and totally scared of flying… but no problem… we only have to take 8 flights in this trip
Some syrup for cough and here we go. At 13.00 we drop our luggages, and at 14.50 the flight take off on time… but I don’t feel that good… I check my temperature: it’s 38.2°. The ears hurt cause of the air pressure and I feel cold. Mama no panic, luckly I’m with a nurse that brought with her a number of medicines that would be enough for a whole hospital in Nigeria. Sina ask some hot water to the hostess and she prepare a magic portion… Meanwhile a lady that was sitting next to us offered me 2 eucaliptus candies that really helped to breath… An hour later I’m brand new

Amsterdam 17.00 +1GTM
The flight lands in Amsterdam around 17.00 local time. We have to wait 3 hours the connection flight to Bangkok. Sina is not used to travel… She is in desperately need of an icecream but in Amsterdam is not yet ice-creams time so we cannot find it anywhere. Her feet also start to be painfull… At 19.30 she wants to go to the gate, but she forgot Amsterdam is in a different time zone and the local time is 18.30, meaning we have to wait one hour more.
At 19.30 they slowly start boarding people, while Sina is really busy studying italian from my finnish-italian dictionary… Security check of our luggages before to get on the plane, then we have to wait a while before to take off and meanwhile we chat a bit with the cabin crew. But… I start to feel sick again… The magic portion effect is getting over… I need some more… I check the temperature: 38.5°. I ask to the steward hot water but he immediatly report my health conditions to the cabin crew responsible that came quickly to explain me that this is a long distance flight and we have to make sure that everything is really fine otherwise we cannot to take off. I calm her down saying it is just a cold and I wont have problems flying to Bangkok… so really politely she asked me to call her for anything I would have need. The weather confition in Amsterdam are not that nice and they have to delay our flight of half an hour cause of it… but at 21.15 we finally take off. Bangkok here we come!
The aircraft is really big, a Boeing 747-400 that can host 280 people. It’s divided in different areas and we are sitting on the first raw of our area with a lot of room for our legs Next to us is sitting a swedish guy and in front the Steward with whom we immediatly start a conversation about Thailand. He tell us that there are some riots going on in Bangkok and Phuket. It doesn’t feel that safe to have this kind of welcome… For the moment we don’t have more information about that but meanwhile I’m feeling a bit better. That magic portion gives effect really quickly. I check again my temperature now is 37.5°. Sina meanwhile feels cold and I need to borrow her my sweater. Is she getting sick too?
The first day has been a bit stressful cause of the fever, so the best thing to do is to go to sleep Lets see what tomorrow will reserve us… Mum don’t worry everything is under control

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