Wednesday 15th April Hong Kong to Martlesham Heath
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 16 April 2009 | Views [133] | Comments [4]
On Tuesday afternoon, after we picked up Paul's custom made shirt from Sam the Tailor, we cooled off with another swim in the roof top, pool at our hotel. The outside temperature there was 28C and the pool temperature was 26C.
For our evening meal we decided to sample a local French Restaurant and had a very nice three course meal with coffee.
Wednesday morning began very early. We were up at 4.00am for our 5.00am pick up to take us to Hong Kong Airport, where we boarded our Air New Zealand flight bound for London Heathrow. The 13 hour, 6,522 mile journey was in a Boeing 777-200ER (for the plane spotters. Last one for now!). The time passed very quickly with the 3 meals and many drinks we were served. Paul watched another 5 films which kept him happy and we arrived on time at Heathrow.
It was then onto the underground to Liverpool Street Station, where we had pre booked tickets back to Ipswich. However we arrived there a couple of hours earlier than we had anticipated, so had to pay an extortionate amount of money to travel to Ipswich on an earlier train.
Nicola and Holly were waiting on the platform for us, Holly with her whistle again, just as she had when we left. It was so nice to see them again and they brought us back home, with a quick stop off for a KFC on the way. We got into our bed 25 hours after we left our bed in Hong Kong.
WE HAVE DONE IT – WE HAVE COMPLETED ONE OF OUR DREAMS AND TRAVELLED AROUND THE WORLD. We feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to make this journey and we have so many happy memories of the wonderful places we have been to and people we have met.
Facts, Figures and Observations
We travelled 26,649 miles by air, in 10 different journeys, taking a total of 57½ hours.
We travelled 1,397 miles by train, in 5 different journeys.
We travelled 895 miles by hire car.
We stayed in 17 hotels (including Valda’s!)
We travelled in many different types of transport – Plane, train, Hire car, 4x4 (SUV), Taxi, Underground train, Mono rail, Cable car, Tram car, Local buses, Luxury coaches, Mini bus, River boat, Steam Ship, Cataraman, Cable Ferry, Car and Passenger Ferry, Gondola, Inclinator, Escalator, Lifts, Walking (many, many miles), Valda's Trusty Truck and Pete’s Trendy Honda Jazz.
We are very grateful to everybody who has taken an interest and followed our travels via our journal, and for all the comments we have received. We hope that if you ever make a journey to any of the Countries that we have written about, that our observations could help in some small way.
Well that’s all for now, until our next adventure…………….
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