This was our hotel last night, it consisted of 4 layers of containers stacked on top of each other, very noisy air conditioning, otherwise very comfortable and very close to the city.
Popped back into London for a couple of hours and a full English Breakfast.
Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament is completely enclosed by scaffolding.
We caught the train to Heathrow, needed to change three times. But overall it was easy and cheap. We caught a Taxi to the airport some years ago, it cost us about $100 and took 40 minutes. The train took 50 minutes and cost $7 each. The trick is to make sure you change stations at the ones showing wheelchair access to avoid lugging large cases up and down stairways.
We got to Heathrow with plenty of time for 3 pints of beer.
A very comfortable 14 hour trip. With the in flight movies the time went quite quickly, although no sleep. The airport was a bit busy on Sunday at 3.30 pm.
Three hours stop over and then off we went to Melbourne on a 6.5 hour flight, it went in no time.
The flight to Devonport was delayed by an hour, so we didn't leave until 9.00 am.
More beer. The plane didn't leave until 9.30 am.
Eventually we made it back to Devonport at 10.30 am.
Tyson and Hunter were there to meet us off the plane, what a great surprise.
Steven's Dad and Chris picked us up and took us home.
Some stats
Flying - 38,192 klms (23,732 miles)
Walking - 336 klms (200 miles)
Trains - 900 klms (560 miles)
Driving - 3,218 klms 2,000 miles)
Holiday enjoyment 100%
That's the end of this holiday and the end of this Blog.
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