Happy New Year Leute!

I do hope you had a very good 2005, but may 2006 be even better and loads more fun.

Now, shall I make it my new year's resolution to be more active in writing posts on this thing? Well, I will try my best, but won't promise anything.

So yes, Xmas in Kazakhstan. Special that was.
The crew did make up for it though, and we all had a lovely time.
On Chritmas Eve we were then all invited to a scrumptuous Xmas Buffet by the Hyatt (the hotel we stay at in Almaty), together with the KLM and Lufthansa crews.
Have to say the Dutch were a lot friendlier, also maybe due to the fact most of them were at least 10 years younger than the Lufthansa lot. We all got along really well though, and the food was absolutely gorgeous, not mentioning the dessert table!

Our flight back was then on the 25th with a grand total of 25 passengers (just realised it makes sense now!), perhaps not surprisingly, all but one were Russians (who boarded in Ekaterinburg) who all had connecting flights to places like Chicago, Capetown, Nice and the like. The odd one out was a Canadian who had the misfortune of spending a night in Kazakh prison as the silly man overstayed his visa.

So I finally got to Iceland just before midnight on Christman day itself, absolutely nackered, but happy to be home, even though it was only for 2 days.

Had a little Baku trip on the 29th (coming back on the 31st)... on which I got accused of trying to poison the crew with my selection of Icelandic and Scandinavian sweets! They weren't fond of Þristur or Läkerol at all, silly people.

Spent New Year's with Joona and Matthew at their pad in central London... lovely dinner and ice cream. Yours truly had been up since the ungodly hour of something like 4AM, so going out that night would have been disastrous... passing out from tiredness isn't really my style, you see.

First trip of the new year was then a 5-day Amman... and 2nd trip of 2006 is:
another 5-day Amman (originally I was supposed to be on a 4-day Baku, but got changed, thankfully I say, as I'm not the biggest fan of the Azeri capital).
I do like Amman, friendly people and a certain no-hassle environment not found here in England. You may see I'm not the biggest fan of the stress of central London, although I don't live there myself (could I ever).

Anyhow folks, yet again wishing you all the best in this new year...