As my flight was late in the evening, I arranged a late check-out until 2pm, but even that was not late enough. Susan and Richard kindly offered their room as they were going to be out all day. So, after checking out of my room, I set up in their room until about 4pm when I caught the hotel shuttle to the airport.
After checking-in at the airport, and as I was travelling on my Official passport, I decided to try the diplomatic route through security and immigration as the other queue was l o n g. They looked at my passport and shuffled me through the detector machine and before I knew it, I was in the QC equivalent in Beijing having a late dinner and Chinese beer.
On board, my TV screen would not work and had to be reset several times, and I only got to watch one movie and then fell asleep just before the end! I did eventually get to see the end of the movie before we landed. The cabin crew were most apologetic and gave me the duty-free brochure and asked me to choose $200 worth of stuff (other than alcohol and cigarettes) for the trouble. I told them I could not accept as I was travelling on a Defence ticket and gifts were not allowed
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