We had another trip back to NZ in May, leaving Miri on 22nd May and flying to Auckland with Royal Brunei Airlines which meant getting to BSB - the capital of Brunei As we were not flying out until 9pm we had plenty of time to get there.

We were picked up by taxi at 8am and just before he arrived the heavens opened with torrential rain which just did not stop The taxi took us to the local bus station where we waited for an hour under an eve until the bus came.

From Miri we went several kilometres to the border where we had to do immigration, then carried on another km to do immigration for Brunei There the poor bus driver had to get out of the bus four times to shift cones in the pouring rain.

Once through immigration, our luggage was roughly checked and then we got on a Brunei bus which took us to Kuala Belait, where we changed buses again for one going to Seria It was very interesting seeing all the oil wells with the pumps working along the side of the road.

At Seria we changed buses once again for a bus to take us to BSB where we finally arrived at about 1.30pm Left our luggage at a travel agent's place that we knew (Alan Riches) and went for a late lunch and a look around the shops but had to be back before 4.30pm to pick up our luggage.

After picking up our luggage we then caught another bus out to the airport Had a few hours to kill there but had dinner there (didn't realise we would still get dinner on the plane) and generally filled in time like most people do at airports - we are getting pretty used to doing that!!.