4 countries in 18 hours

Admittedly it was a long 18 hours, but we took off from Sydney just before 7pm Sunday and landed in Vancouver just after 11am Monday.  We had booked the cheapest ticket we could find that didn’t involves going through America (due to their annoying visa requirements), so we flew to Singapore (8 hours) where we spent the night (10 hours), then flew to South Korea (7 hours) where after queuing in line to get a transit card, get our bags scanned and get back on the plane (40 minutes) we flew to Vancouver (10 hours).  As I said it was a long 18 hours.  Strangely enough it wasn’t that bad.  We discovered the oasis lounge in Singapore (free!) where they have $8000 massage chairs for you to use (free!).   After three massages and a few hours of sleep we felt quite refreshed, we also explored the butterfly garden which was lots of fun.  The second good part of the flight was that the Korea-Canada leg was basically empty and nearly everyone had an entire row to themselves!! So we were able to lie down and sleep nearly the whole flight, blissful.