Outward Bound

Elk's Street has safely returned from its journey to the Far East. Here, as promised, is a brief report and some, probably far too many, photos. Since the trip was quite a long one, the report will be published in parts.

With work having to be done up to the last minute, Elk's Street left home on 5th December in two contingents. After staying overnight in Tapiola, the journey proper started early on Finnish Independence Day (luckily the president hadn't invited any of us to the ball, the climax of the Finnish social year!) Below a few photos:

The travellers waiting at Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

Hwei-Ming and Thomas on the Finnair flight to Frankfurt.

Peter and Henry on the same flight.

The little boys resting at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).


Thomas at the entrance to the plane to Penang. He looks surprisingly fresh considering he had only slept a few hours.

Despite a few problems with airports - the check-in at Helsinki wanted to send our luggage only to Kuala Lumpur and not Penang (moral: look carefully at the luggage sticker being fixed to your cases) and transit at Frankfurt was unclear and complicated (moral: don't transit at airports where the only 'information' is from some kind of computer kiosk) - the journey went very well.