Bad Hops

Today I’ll be flying from Riyadh to Kuwait to Baghdad to Kuwait to Jeddah. Then tomorrow is pretty much the same thing but backwards. The only interesting thing is that flights direct from Saudi Arabia to Iraq aren’t permitted, hence the Kuwait stops.

What a great life this is.

Missoni Kuwait

Hotel Missoni Kuwait, which opened March 1st, 2011

It’s tip-toe light on the greys, browns, and black…

I know nothing of Kuwait, but I want to stay at this hotel if I ever go there! Hotel design is so neutralized, flaccid. How stuu-nning it must be! I have this shot (above) as my desktop background and – oh – how I swoon. It captured the colours of the Gulf perfectly – turquoise, gold, beige – the brilliant colours of the sand and the sea. Very, very pretty.

Rezidor Hotel Group will open its second property under the Hotel Missoni brand on March 1, with the unveling of a hotel in the Salmiya district of Kuwait City. Hotel Missoni Kuwait is located within the Symphony Centre in the northeastern Salmiya district of Kuwait City, overlooking Kuwait Bay.

Features will include 169 rooms and 63 suites, as well as Cucina restaurant, an outdoor swimming pool tiled in the Missoni signature stripe, and a 1,500sqm spa. All rooms include Bang and Olufsen TVs, and suites feature a “magic mirror” which allow guests to switch their bathroom mirror into a TV.

Business Traveller

Ankle

Feel 20 times better! I came back from a very leisurely turnaround flight to Kuwait this morning, the loads were very light both ways, lovely crew (including a cute L2 guy). Flirting makes the time pass so much faster (-: I was told I looked like Kristen Stewart, not true, but nice to hear anyway, hohoho. Picked up the new Cabin Crew Onboard Service Guide as well – nicely timed, as I had to do the PA again. Little things pep me up. Or maybe I was seeking out little things to be pepped up by?? There were two South African airline crew onboard too, to operate from Kuwait on what I think they said was a something-120, with only three other crew.. must be tiny! An Embraer, or an air force plane?? I wanted to ask them so many questions – I did go back to offer them drinks and chat but they were already asleep.

I finally went to the crew gym this afternoon, which is around three blocks from here, and it’s totally fine! I can’t imagine now why I put it off for so long..I think because last time I only peeked into the poky claustrophobia-inducing female-only gym. The mixed one is much better. A little disappointed that my ankle hurt too much to run on, but I used the bike and power-walked it instead. Now, if I can just start studying a course or something, and improve my lackluster social life, I might be on my way to being a semi well-rounded individual.

I started using Quizlet in an attempt to review first aid and aircraft details that I once knew and have since forgotten. After logging in again after typing out a whole bunch of ‘flashcards’, they have all for some reason vanished. Annoying. But not taking that into consideration, I highly recommend Quizlet, or Memorizable if you need to familiarize yourself with anything really, especially vocab or definitions. 🙂

London in all but a few hours!! 16°C/7°C.. yoww!