I checked out of Johor early and headed to Chiangi Airport. It’s an amazing airport and there is a lot of things to keep you amused while you wait for your flight. I haven’t been here for many years and it’s changed quite a lot.

You can go to the Chiangi Jewel, which is where you can spend many hours feeding your face or just wandering around looking at the HSBC glass waterfall or the maze or canopy walk, you can even see a movie.

The flight is short but no matter how short the flight we still have to get on board and it never ceases to amaze me how thick as pig shit many of the passengers are, for example….. let’s try and find my seat. Oh what number does my boarding pass say? 34 that must be near number 1 or 2 shouldn’t it. This must be one of the easiest things to do when flying, I mean you have managed to find the airport, checked in, got to the correct gate and you have also approached the guys at the boarding gate to see if the plane is boarding yet even although there are about two hundred people sitting waiting in the lounge waiting to board the same plane that you are asking about……… Breathe in, breathe out!!!!!

This is course is a consequence of cheaper air travel and will only get worse even although the facilities and services on offer are better. levels of customers will also increase, this is all to do with the natural selection phenomenon of today, the planet is becoming more stupid even although we have got access to more information than at any other time in history. In days gone by they would have never survived to their twenties and we as a species would be better off a result.

There was one Russian family and the macho father wasn’t happy when the young Thai security officer told him that he had to fill out an arrival card. Because of this slight detour he had lost his place in the queue, but that did not stop him from jumping the queue and pushing in…. Can’t lose face in front of your wife and two sons after all.

Even although he was through before me the baggage god gave me my bag first and he was still waiting.

I always feel like the tourists are just lambs to the slaughter when you arrive at a small airport because you have no options and have to run with what’s on offer even although everyone concerned knows that the prices being charged are too much.

Note to self, remember that inflation is part of the problem and don’t get upset when everyone is asking you the same question. Remember that you do know the answers but because you have had very little sleep and you are just a grumpy miserable old bastard due to your travelling companions…. Try to keep clear headed when buying the sim card or the taxi, because due to your stupidity you picked the wrong ones.

I love travelling 🤔