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Friday Jun 17, 2022 #
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(rest day)
Travel day; thought I might arrive in Oslo early enough to squeeze something in but would have felt too tired for it even without delays from a 75-minute immigration queue (and then having to search for my bag because our flight had long since disappeared from the signs saying which flight was on which carousel). Apart from that the flights went smoothly enough, although I didn't sleep as much on the Melbourne-Doha leg as I normally would (guess I'm out of practice).
Most interesting bit of the trip was anticipating potential route choices for the Doha-Oslo leg, given that the straight line goes over the top of a few places which have been in the news a lot in the last couple of months. It turned out we took a more western route (over Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and Poland), after initially passing over Iraq and a few names which were in the news a lot a couple of decades ago (Abu Ghraib appeared on the flight map at one point). I don't think Qatar Airways is banned from Russia but obviously they decided that wasn't a good option. Of places flown over, Erbil has one of the more interesting layouts I've seen of a city (almost circular), although I'm not quite sure why the outer ring road (according to Google) is called 120 Meter Street (in distance from the centre it's more like 5 Kilometre Street).
Speaking of being banned from Russia, I'm assuming that I'm not on the list? (it seems like most of those who are are treating it as a badge of honour).
Most interesting bit of the trip was anticipating potential route choices for the Doha-Oslo leg, given that the straight line goes over the top of a few places which have been in the news a lot in the last couple of months. It turned out we took a more western route (over Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and Poland), after initially passing over Iraq and a few names which were in the news a lot a couple of decades ago (Abu Ghraib appeared on the flight map at one point). I don't think Qatar Airways is banned from Russia but obviously they decided that wasn't a good option. Of places flown over, Erbil has one of the more interesting layouts I've seen of a city (almost circular), although I'm not quite sure why the outer ring road (according to Google) is called 120 Meter Street (in distance from the centre it's more like 5 Kilometre Street).
Speaking of being banned from Russia, I'm assuming that I'm not on the list? (it seems like most of those who are are treating it as a badge of honour).