Not much happened for me on-line last week, cause I spent an awful amount of time travelling:

• ZRH -> ZRH airport: tram + train
• ZRH – airport -> Milan airport: flying Swiss
• Milan airport -> Shanghai airport: flying Air China, need to get my luggage and checking in again forced me to spend 6 hours in the public zone tof the airport
• Shanghai airport -> Sydney airport: flying Air China
• Sydney airport -> Sydney office/hotel: Über black

5 days in Australia and time to head back

• Sydney office -> Sydney airport: ÜberX
• Sydney airport -> Beijing airport: Air China
• Beijing airport -> Milan airport: Air China
• Milan airport -> Milan train station: Taxi
• Milan train station -> Dijon train station: night train
• Dijon train station -> Dole: local train
• Dole -> Arbois: car (non driver)
• Arbois -> Zürich: car (driver)

My comments on this small adventures are multiple:

• I had to get my luggage and check in again in Shanghai, meaning spending 8 hours on a bank in the check in zone (cause I could not check in too early) and passing customs twice. Gross.
• Air china is really great: cheap enough to fly business, great blankets and pillows, great chinese food. Not so great western food and flight entertainment is mostly Chinese
• I’ve used most transportation means except buses 🙂
• Milan train station is far from Milan airport : 1h taxi ride, worth 120EUR, ouch
• Über in Australia is strange, couldn’t pick an UberX to go from the airport and ended up with quite a big fee. I might have been too jetlagged to read the app correctly though.
• Night train from Milan to Paris is awful: I couldn’t fit into the bed, was supposed to have booked 1st class, ended up into a 6 beds container, no sheets, quite dirty, very noisy despite noise cancelling headphones and customs officers barging at 2:00am
• I bless the battery life of my mac book air who left me with something to watch for most of the trips
• Showers in Beijing were broken in business lounge, but I could use the one from first class
• It’s an awful trip for 5 days on site
• Everything went smooth, as planned
• I had to come back to France for my dad’s birthdays, meaning I spent most of my week-end working. No jet lag! (or it didn’t kick yet)
• “winter” in Australia is overrated : it felt like late spring at home, very nice compared to the local heat
• I had forgotten to apply for a visa: good thing ESTA could be done the previous week