#I WALK IN LIKE A TIMEPIECE I GO STRAIGHT TO VIP FREE#

I couldnвЂ™t use the free public Wi-Fi at Dubai airport despite being able to connect to it (on the notebook).

The entertainment system on board the first aircraft from Manchester to Dubai had annoying glitches when selecting songs to play.

The hotel in Sheffield doesnвЂ™t start serving breakfast until 9am at weekends my train was at 9.11am.

I rebooted it and now it doesnвЂ™t work at all вЂ¦ It also failed to charge when connected to my small notebook computer.

My Blackberry stopped charging on Friday night, A replacement charger was bought and seemed to work in the UK but not abroad.

My possible couchsurf location confirmed she was cancelling, which was expected, but I had already left the house by that stage.

And who were running even later because SarahвЂ™d had signal failures too!

Leaving work at 4pm made no odds as traffic was bad so ended up being picked up by SarahвЂ™s parents, who were coming to mine to pick up Bobo.

Things that havenвЂ™t gone right so far (and IвЂ™ve only just reached Day 01!): But then I decided to split it off into two sections, one with the minutiae and one with the вЂ¦ shall we say, вЂissuesвЂ™.

#I WALK IN LIKE A TIMEPIECE I GO STRAIGHT TO VIP FULL#

I did originally write a full travel diary for the period Friday 17 to Sunday 19 February. The вЂDubaiвЂ™ section at the end was because I was flying on Emirates, there was a вЂstopoverвЂ™ in Dubai, and because my step-cousin lives there I decided to buy my tickets to take into account a couple of days to meet up with her.Дays -01 to 01 : And it looks like we might have made itДay 06 : You put your left shoe on, your left shoe off вЂ¦Дay 07 : The Falang is Funny and has no BalanceДay 08 : Cultural Awareness and DiversityДay 10 : One Night Day in Bangkok SisaketДay 15 : Remember, Meeting Expectations leads to Customer SatisfactionДay 20 : Glorified Shopping CentвЂ¦Oh, Wait! The original plan was to do less of many more countries, but I quickly decided that would have been silly вЂ¦ Vietnam or Myanmar I can do next time! And the more I looked into it, the more I could quite easily have spent the whole time in either Laos *or* Cambodia!Д«ut eventually, flights were booked, and plans made. Now IвЂ™ve been to China twice, but the area to the South IвЂ™d only ever come across by meeting people whoвЂ™d been or lived there, and from some recent history.

In discussions with a couple of travel-oriented friends, the suggestion of South East Asia came up. Now, I *always* go to the USA (itвЂ™s my default option!), but this time I fancied something different. Coming into 2012, I had about 24 daysвЂ™ holiday to book off from work, and had to use them by the end of March, otherwise I would lose them.

I walk in like a timepiece i go straight to vip