Pushka
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I usually do trip reports Live as they happen. But this trip started when I'd still not recovered from a respiratory infection and it was all I could do to travel. It took another two weeks for me to kick into gear and then, well, it didn't happen.
So the premise was to have a weeks stay with son and his Brit in-laws, and meet halfway between Oz and UK. Somehow, that ended up being Portugal
. Righteo. I had no control over the arrangements something that made me somewhat tetchy but we just went with the flow.
Wanting to travel in business we next thought about how to get there without breaking the bank. This was our third major trip in 12 months and the budget was stretched. So we decided to bookend with Bali and figured we could do the jet lag thing there on the way back. That idea worked really well and weirdly we snapped straight back into Oz time as soon as we arrived in Bali on return.
Started from Adelaide flying Qantas to Sydney then on to Denpasar. The weather was great, and SA still hadn't started winter yet (mid June) so no major weather events to deal with. We wanted to maximise FLounging after all.
Mostly what follows are photos with a bit of explanation.
Flying into Sydney. Excellent views. In J. The food was not remarkable. But we knew we would be eating in the lounge.
![FullSizeRender.jpeg FullSizeRender.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386570-9abe62b4155d06744ccc80d3e14bdf4c.jpg)
![IMG_7255.jpeg IMG_7255.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386571-6058e32ecc2acb771c48bc449ad6ba2a.jpg)
And my lunch. Not really in the groove hey? Not even alcohol.
![IMG_7249.jpeg IMG_7249.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386572-bdc60a234442b5dbcc2bc4ccef6a151a.jpg)
So the premise was to have a weeks stay with son and his Brit in-laws, and meet halfway between Oz and UK. Somehow, that ended up being Portugal
![Woman shrugging :woman_shrugging: 🤷♀️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png)
Wanting to travel in business we next thought about how to get there without breaking the bank. This was our third major trip in 12 months and the budget was stretched. So we decided to bookend with Bali and figured we could do the jet lag thing there on the way back. That idea worked really well and weirdly we snapped straight back into Oz time as soon as we arrived in Bali on return.
Started from Adelaide flying Qantas to Sydney then on to Denpasar. The weather was great, and SA still hadn't started winter yet (mid June) so no major weather events to deal with. We wanted to maximise FLounging after all.
Mostly what follows are photos with a bit of explanation.
Flying into Sydney. Excellent views. In J. The food was not remarkable. But we knew we would be eating in the lounge.
![FullSizeRender.jpeg FullSizeRender.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386570-9abe62b4155d06744ccc80d3e14bdf4c.jpg)
![IMG_7255.jpeg IMG_7255.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386571-6058e32ecc2acb771c48bc449ad6ba2a.jpg)
And my lunch. Not really in the groove hey? Not even alcohol.
![IMG_7249.jpeg IMG_7249.jpeg](https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/data/attachments/386/386572-bdc60a234442b5dbcc2bc4ccef6a151a.jpg)
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