G’Day, Cairns

After a grueling pair of flights, I am in Cairns, Australia!

I was dreading the Shanghai to Cairns flight. I was in economy class, and the ten hour flight left at 9:00pm.

Fortunately, in the 2-4-2 seating arrangement, I had two seats to myself, and the seat in front was also unoccupied! I was able to sprawl out in the two seats, and actually slept for around two hours.

Then I had to backtrack from Sydney to Cairns with a flight of over three hours.

Now, I have to arrange for a Great Barrier Reef snorkeling tour, and probably a rainforest tour, too.

A couple of nice features about Australia: no need for the ssh tunnel through the great firewall, and everyone speaks English!