TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, May 23, 2005

1:16 PM
Posted by jodi rose

back in newtown, my fingers hitting the wrong keys on the once familiar keyboard - how quickly they become accustomed to the variations.
arrived 10am this morning - is now 1.20pm so can still officially claim jetlag for any lapsed synapses.
30 hours in transit, from helsinki. there was a medical emergency on the plane from london, someone had a heart attack so we had to land in Delhi and get them to a hospital. Then spent 3 hours on the tarmac while the pilot arranged a line of credit for the US$35,000 payment which the airport officials wanted in cash for the refuelling.
everyone was very calm and patient, you can't really get upset when some poor bastard has had heart palpitations and ended up in an Indian hospital.
can't remember much from the flight, watched the life aquatic and sideways, both entertaining. tried to sleep, walked around, stretched, had minimal but friendly conversation with the people next to me.
ah yes, stopped in at the oxygen massage place in bangkok airport during our 50 minutes there, convinced it makes those 24 hr long haul flights far less damaging to the back and stressful than they would otherwise be.

last day in helsinki was quite sad
really wished I had done and enjoyed it more while I was there. but guess that's how stuff goes.
almost everyone was out of town, in a way that's good, as I got to see Mika and Aura, and almost lotta but not quite. Andrew off storytelling in scotland, kate in lapland, sophea on the train to st petersburg, mari I'd just seen in berlin, juha still in paris where I'd also recently visited. hardly anyone I knew in town.
walking home at midnight, still almost daylight until almost 1am - when the very gentle twilight shifted into dawn.
readjusting to life in australia - although it also doesn't feel permanent, but in a good way. need to develop sustainable work practices for nomadic art.
ripped out an article from british airways inflight magazine, about offshore investments - are you a fiscal nomad? it asked. I wish. seemed to mean maximising the interest and minimising tax on earnings and investments. If I could just work out the basic principle of 'spend less than you earn' or even 'earn consistently' that would start to make sense. one day. eeek.