Thursday, August 30, 2007

The Police are back together and on a world tour…



Yesterday evening, the 29th of August, was it time for a concert for all Music Lovers!

The concert with Sting and the Police @ Stockholm Globe Arena. It’s the first concert in the World tour. I was lucky to hold tickets for the concert - It was a great concert!!!

”Message in a bottle”, ”Every breath you take”, ”Can’t stand losing you” and ”Roxanne”… ”Every little thing she does is magic” is a lovely in a mix of pop, reggae, calypso and jazz… Its lovely to hear Gordon Sumner alias Sting (song & base guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums) playing together again.

Website: The Police Tour Website

http://www.thepolicefile.com/

Back home

Pictures

(will upload some pictures her when the time is back too me again)

LAX --- Los Angelse --- Where is my bag????

Los Angeles





Where is my bag????

Time to Flyaway...

Departure Faa'a


The last picture of Moorea...

Departure


You are looking but can't see anybody looking for you...

– No happy surprise are waiting for you... and nobody is waiting at Faa’a, happy too see you!

Don’t know why, maybe I got some sort of a flying virus infection, but I’m always looking for and hoping that somebody is gone meet me at the airport.....

AND I will still be looking for a smiling face and for a friend !!!

See you Soon !!!



It’s time for me to start to prepare for some new trips. The first one is going to Lisboa, Portugal and the next, in November, to New York, US and after that a new trip for Auckland, New Zealand and Sidney, Australia.



Le Méridien Tahiti, Punaauia

Le Méridien Tahiti is located along the beach in the Punaauia region 15 kilometres from Papeete.

Le Méridien Tahiti

Friends....

Bungalows for 2 nights

The night is coming...

....gold over the Island of Moorea....

....

For my girls?

For my friend?

For Lunch !

Auira

Pension Auira - Breakfast at 07:25

Kayaking in the lagoon...

Kayaking in the lagoon (Pension Auira)

Kayaking in the lagoon (the beach on Maupiti main land)

Motu Auira – The Oceanside

Motu Auira – The lava rock and reef on the Oceanside

The Green Auira

A red dream still floating in the lagoon...

Pics from Maupiti






1963, terrible drame aux îles Sous-le-Vent Manuia la mal nommée fait La passe de Maupiti a mauvaise réputation

Survient alors une tragédie qui fera 15 victimes...

‘Co Co’ - Pictures from Maupiti Airport


‘Co Co’ is a nickname of a lovely woman filled with plenty of energy! It must be wonderful to have your own chef at home, waiting for you with ‘Saumon a`la Crème au Muscadet’ and ‘Asperges au Beurre d’Estragon’ or ‘Girolles a`la Créme Fraiche’ .... after a hard day's work. :-)
Happy Co Co !!!




Note: As far as I know is the man on the pictures not the chef back home…

Arriving to Maupit Airport

..... and making Fishy Business....

Happy to arrive to Maupit Airport with a friend and waiting together for the "Airport Transfer" and the next flight from Bora Bora.

The happy shit of mine was "happy" paying 3200 xpf extra to Air Tahiti for the doubtful privilege to re-booking my flight from Papeete to Maupiti via Bora Bora, and instead be given the opportunity to fly together with a friend via Raiatea. Nevertheless, I’m still waiting for the same airplane from Bora Bora... Fishy Business, but with a bright memory for life!

Happy to be at Maupiti after a flight from PPT via Raiatea

No Gilbert = No Transfer to Auira...

Happy to be at Maupiti

...Waiting...

...Waiting...

Gilbert… arriving after 2 h ("Airport Transfer")

Waiting…

Waiting for the next flight from Bora Bora...

The Lounge of Maupiti Airport - BYOB



The lovely Open Air Bar of Maupiti, with plenty off choices between two types of water and one type of beer. Enjoy and just take a seat in the spacey Lounge of Maupiti.

Diners Lounge in Maupiti Airport has not opened yet, so if you are expecting to stay on ground for many hours make sure to bring your own. Frequent travelers of Maupiti islands prefer the “BYOB concept” and bring there own bottles. So don’t forget to Bring Your Own Bottle for Any of Our Meals… in Maupiti. And if you are coming from Europe, don’t forget “Salt & Pepper”!

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia

Happy Landing!

Maupiti is a lovely island and a beautiful airport to be landing on. The runway of Maupiti is only 956 × 23 meter and one of the shortest in French Polynesia. You can compare it with the runway of FAAA (3420 × 45 meter) witch is 350 % of Maupiti.

- So Happy Landing !

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia (PF)

Latitude: 16°25'35"S
Longitude: 152°14'36"W
Runways: 1
Longest: 956 × 23 m





PLEASE, Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and landing. Check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.


Safety advice!

Even if you are an expert or semi-professional passenger or as me, flying 5 days a week (or more) and only are interested to survive. – Please READ The Safety Instructions every morning when its time to fly. It’s extra important to read how to use the Life Jackets, when flying in French Polynesia, and I do hope you understand why?

So Please! Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.

As a fairly frequent flyer and member of SGU-society, knowing the physical facts for short take-off & landing under normal and poor conditions (windy and raining). I recommend you to tighten the safety belt a little bit extra 60 seconds before take-off & landing. Crashing into water or trying to go down on water is not a soft way to stop flying.

When landing (and Maupit is good as an example) is it important to have enough speed to be airborne and enough frictional resistance and power to be able stop, within a time period of 10 to 15 seconds. Normally is it no problems but you newer knows when the clock is calling for you...

Maupit has a runway with water on both ends and is good as an example. Because it’s bloody wet on both ends of the runway and about 400 meters deep only a few meters out in beautiful waves of the ocean. The reef on the Oceanside is the best place to take a morning swim… If you are “lucky” Crashing and standing in the blue lagoon, be happy!



The reef on the Oceanside


Terminal building of Maupiti