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Being a Stewardess | 3 day Dubai Layover

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Welcome to my first layover diary and my second Stewardess post! As I have told in my other post, my work is my passion and I like to share some nice things about it. About a week and a half ago I was allowed to go to Dubai for 3 days with a nice crew, flying from Amsterdam. I already knew the cabin crew colleagues from Eindhoven and Amsterdam, so that was of course extra fun. Dubai had long been on my wish list. The airline where I work for mainly has ’turnarounds’, so a layover is of course a very nice extra for a lot of people. Many people certainly look forward to it like me. Previous September I also had a nice layover in the city of Groningen. [Lees meer…]

Outfit | Dubai

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A few days ago I had my first layover abroad. Dubai is a cool city! I was able to spend 3 days with a great crew and one of my very best friends who lives an hour away from Dubai. Where I am standing is at La Mer, where we had lunch with the girls, recommended by my good friend Roos. This nice dress is well suited for days when the temperature is around 20 degrees. Since it would be around 20 degrees in Dubai at the time I would visit, I thought it would be great to take it with me. [Lees meer…]

Outfit | Classic

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Hi everyone! Best wishes for 2020! The holidays are over so quickly. This year I had the luxury of being off during Christmas (exept on Christas eve) after a long Canarian flight on Christmas Eve. And I was called out of standby for an Canarian flight during the last day of 2019, which allowed me to celebrate New Years Eve at home on the couch with my parents. On this 1st day of Januari – I cannot be allocated for one day due to my long morning flight yesterday, so I am off. I hope you also had lovely holidays. [Lees meer…]

Outfit | Tiffany

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Less than 2 weeks left and then it’s Christmas. Time flies! This entire week, the last of my “peak / off-peak” period, was incredibly fun. I have done super nice things this whole week, especially with work friends. Yesterday we participated in the recording of the Stewardess dance of the ‘All you need is love – Christmas special’ at Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam). [Lees meer…]

Japan travel diary | 2019 Solo trip to Japan part 3

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I cropped this last part of my 14 day trip into one post as I haven’t taken many photos in the last few days there. This is day 9 to 14. One of the last days I heard from a KLM flight attendant that my standby travel flight was as good as full, so I booked an extra night in my hostel in Tokyo and converted the KLM IPB flight to a new one day later. This day I went to Kyoto again from Osaka, this time with Yuka. Osaka and Kyoto are not long apart by public transport, I believe half an hour, so no other hostel was needed. Yuka and I have known each other since 2013 and have seen each other in the Netherlands and last year in Japan as well. [Lees meer…]

Japan travel diary | Solo trip to Japan part 2

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Hi all! Welcome to my never uploaded travel diary piece from my Japan trip in 2019. Update, this part was in my drafts for 5 years.. so my memory is not entirely clear in this post, and at times I will be speaking in the past or the present. I have changed the post date so that it stays on the correct timeline for the date I published the others. The prices I mention in the post are very different in 2024, and based on the prices in 2019. [Lees meer…]

Japan travel diary | 2019 Solo trip to Japan part 1

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In November, I went to Japan for 14 days. Just like I did in 2018, I went solo. I had booked the direct KLM flights via crew standby travel. After a flight of 10.5 hours in total, I left to the city the same way as last year, with the Narita express – a direct train connection to central Tokyo at Narita Airport station. The price of a return trip is 4000 yen (around 28 euros) – For the standby/crew members among us, you can also use the return ticket for another day, in case your plans change within 14 days. [Lees meer…]