This was to be a day of travel and today being Friday the 13th we were hoping there were to be no glitches along the way.
David Smart very kindly provided our transport to the Hobart airport and by midday we were in Melbourne and our bags ticketed through to Seoul in South Korea.
As we had a four hour stopover in Melbourne we spent the first hour in the Virgin Lounge where amongst other issues we contacted the Sunboost technicians who were finalising the installation of our new solar battery. After downloading the new software for the new FOX 42 kWh battery we hoped that despite our absence, the system would now be working appropriately and that we could monitor our domestic energy issues during our five weeks away.
The great crowds of people we encountered on arrival in Melbourne thinned out at the International terminal and by the time we’d passed through the security check and passport control it was very quiet. We retrieved the GST on the new laptop we’d purchased recently and then purchased some Korean currency (won) and Japanese yen.
Our Singapore Airlines flight to Singapore was on a Boeing 777-300 which left pretty much on time at 14:30. True to form, the Singapore service was impeccable and our usual holiday initiator of a mandatory ‘bloody-mary’ cocktail was top class.
Traditional bloody Mary on overseas flight, Melbourne to Singapore
The seven hour flight had us arriving in Singapore at around 21:00 local time.
Flight path Melbourne to Singapore
Flying into Singapore
We then we had a three hour layover until our flight to Seoul. We spent an hour or so in the Singapore Airlines SilverKris lounge enjoying some cold drinks and the opportunity to recharge phones and headphones. It was then time to commence the final leg of our day’s travels and we headed off to gate E26 a substantial distance away.
Orchids at Changi Airport, Singapore,
The flight to Seoul was on a comparatively new Boeing 787-10 with more leg room than the B777. We departed Singapore just after midnight local time and travelled through the night for around six hours to arrive at Seoul’s International airport at Incheon.
We thus ended our Friday 13th after 24 hours of time in planes and departure lounges.