We’re home…and unbelievably restless.
Time sure screws with you sometimes!
Bed time or else I’ll be up all night. Just letting you all know we made it alive and hoping to see lots of familiar faces and of course talk your ear off with all the amazing adventures we had!
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Hey all,
In exactly 13 and a half hours we will hopefully be boarding our final flight back home. We have a stopover in Hong Kong and the flight should last 24 hours. Fingers crossed that nothing to exciting happens unlike last time. We shall be arriving in Sydney on Monday the 11th at the lovely hour of 6:30am and will be welcomed by our sleep deprived families (though they won’t be any where as near sleep deprived then us!)
Yesterday we had a full day in London where we did the free walking tour (lots of fun and took us to places we’d missed or just couldn’t find the first time we were here) and then got lost for a few hours in the biggest book store we’d ever been in! We had to use the elevators to reach the different floors, all 6 of them!!! You can imagine how excited we were and we confess we bought quite a lot of reading material for the plane. We got rained on briefly which i guess is typical in the UK but the weather otherwise is quite pleasant, warm enough for t-shirts but not mind melting hot either.
Action plan for today is to catch the underground to Terminal 3 after peak hour (which is 9:30am and then start he fun process of checking our luggage weight and praying that our bags are organised properly. Then we will eat something akin to hospital food (okay, it won’t be that bad but i doubt it will be healthy) and then the waiting game begins.
So the next time I’ll be writing on this blog we will both be in the land down under, fingers crossed! For those amazing people we’ve met along the way and who are still traveling, good luck and may St Christopher watch out for you in European traffic!!
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Heya,
We”ve been quite busy the last few days and it’s been really hot though thankfully in Venice and Rome (where it reached 36 degrees) we both had air conditioning in our private rooms (yay) as well as a fridge! Venice was amazing! The canals and winding streets were cool and so were all the masks. We really couldn’t spend much time in the city though cos it got to hot and sticky. Ben and I were pouring sweat but the camping site had a swimming pool although the planes from the nearby airport often threatened to land in the pool. We only spent two full days there before we headed for Rome for one night where we packed and repacked our luggage, hoping that our big blue case we found in Berlin would only weigh 15kgs and our two carry on luggage weighed 10kg each.
This morning at the airport we had to repack our bag again, juggling one thing in a bag to another until we managed to get the perfect weight. Our flight was half an hour delayed for some unknown reaon and it was bloody hot waiting with a hundred odd other people. Finally took off and we arrived in London at 1pm where we battled shuttle buses, trains and the underground to get to our hostel. We’re repacked our bags yet again cos of the weight restrictions changing for our next flight on Saturday and to be honest I’m quite happy to be getting home and finally getting to wear a different outfit!
Will write once more before we leave for home.
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Hey all,
In Munich for one night before we head for Venice. Went to the Hofbrauhaus and ate sausages and the best mash potato! Ben loved his litre of beer cos the last time we were here he wasn’t allowed any alcohol cos he was on antibiotics!
Salzburg was amazing. Perfect weather and everything was in bloom whereas the last time I was here in 2005 it was in the middle of winter. We checked out the Marabel Gardens and met a local artist who seemed impressed with Ben and my creative sides (don’t laugh) and she actually gave us a free ink drawing of a wild flower which was really nice and unexpected.
We climbed up the horridly steep incline to get to the fortress overlooking all of Salzburg and for those we were with me the last time we climbed, I swear it was a lot steeper then it actually is though it is scarily steep still. Views were spectacular as you’d expect. Last night there was massive thunder and lightening storm that even managed to drown out the woman singing opera opposite our hostel (no mean feat, to be sure, to be sure).
Only 7 nights left until we fly home to good old oz. Gonna miss this nice weather though!
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