Sunday 29th June 2025

Sunday 29^th June

SHE SAID:

The trip back to Oz was about 5 ½ hours. Long & boring, as Malaysian Airlines have done away with screens & entertainment on the plane, instead you can connect through your phones. They never bothered to tell you this though, so I didn’t have any way of listening to shows or movies, as I don’t have those wireless ear buds & the phone doesn’t have a jack! I didn’t bring a book as I didn’t realised I’d need one. Thanks, Malaysian Airlines, it was a really tiresome flight!

It was good to get back to Bertie & see Dorte & Gary again.

Leaving KL & flying into Perth

Sunset Australia style

HE SAID:

We were up and gone from the hotel before 6am. The drive to Kuala Lumpur Airport is about an hour, and luckily there were no hold-ups being early on a Sunday morning. The Malaysian self-serve check-ins were the usual mess of companies saving money by having fewer staff, but lots of customers needing to speak to an employee to get things done. The lack of entertainment on a long flight was also a pain. The aircraft seats were so thin, to fit more in I assume, that there was probably no room to even fit a screen into the back. They were also uncomfortably firm. Not our best experience with Malaysian, who, up until now, have been quite good. We’ll think twice in future if this is their new standard.

It was just under three hours driving to get back to Bertie, Dorte, and Gary in Yelverton. We had a chat and a drink before heading to the van for pesto, a quick sort out, and an early night.