Ordinary Gweilo

A promotional brochure arrives from a certain credit card company, offering a trip to London for some dollars and some credit card points.

It’s described as a “5 days / 2 nights London package”.  Er, hang on.  5 days?  I’d call it 3 days (and even that is a touch optimistic). 

The first “day” is a couple of hours at Chek Lap Kok airport waiting for your plane to depart, and maybe 20 minutes in the air.  The second day you arrive in London early in the morning, rested and relaxed after 13 hours in the economy cabin, and maybe you can check-in to your hotel in the early afternoon.  The third day is genuinely 24 hours in London.  The fourth day you have to be at the airport by around 7 pm.  The fifth “day” is spent in the air, arriving back in Hong Kong in the late afternoon. 

What an enchanting prospect.