By the time this is posted I will be somewhere over the middle-east, bound for Doha, Qatar. After a brief stopover in that wee nation I’ll be off to merry ole London, and a chance to be reunited, albeit briefly, with Mrs. Stevo.
I’ve read some rather nasty reviews of Qatar Airways, but after dealing with Chinese taxi drivers for four years I think I can handle anything the airline industry can dish out.
My camera bag tipped the scales at just over 20 pounds, without the assorted cables, chargers, batteries and adapters. What am I taking? Everything.
- Canon EOS 40D Body
- Canon EOS 400D Body
- Canon 24-105 f/4L USM IS Lens
- Canon 70-700 f/2.8 USM IS Lens
- Canon 50 f/1.4 USM Lens
- Canon 17-55 f/3.5-5.6 Lens (a back-up. I’m probably get better results sketching than using the kit lens that came with the 400D)
- Canon Speedlite 580 EX II Flash Unit
- CF Card Reader / 80G hard drive.
- Assorted remote flash triggers, shutter releases, memory cards, flash diffusers.
- Asus 4G eeePC
Nine-and-a-half hours to Doha. A three hour layover, the another seven to London. From there, a six hour wait for my bus, then two hours to Mrs. Stevo’s warm embrace. What’s that, 27.5 hours? Math is not my strong point unless there is a $ before the number.
Sometimes you have to get the f*%# out. Any long-term expat will agree. This will be my second trip out of China in four years. I long for fields and open spaces, after living in a city of 12 million.
Through the technological miracles of Wordpress, Asian Ramblings will continue to provide new content during my British sojourn. If I have time, I’ll post images of a frozen England. They will most likely be blurry, as I will be shivering. The climate of south China and England are a tad different, or so I hear.
Stay tuned, y’all. See pics of Stevo and the Missus, bangers and mash, pints, Big Ben, and Stevo’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth II. I heard a rumor I am to be knighted. Or deported. I can’t quite remember. Both sound exciting.
Jolly good show, peace out for now.
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