WEDNESDAY 16th MAY 2012FIRST DAY IN LONDONApparently there had been some awful weather last night in London, but the weather gods surely smiled on us when we touched down in London - a glorious sunny day!We were actually a few minutes early touching down and were quickly through the Immigration lines and Customs and then Taz led us into the bowels of Heathrow and to one of the train stations. We bought an Oyster Card, which gives a weeks travel in two zones in Lo...

TUESDAY 14th MAY 2012LONDON HERE WE COME!Met Den and Sue for brekky at 9am after an average nights sleep due to an extremely hard mattress! The room at The Park is modern and well equipped, but pretty small and as is the custom in a lot of Singapore hotels the beds are way too hard!Never mind the hotel is in a superb location, with great entertainment and eateries close by and it is a short and cheap taxi ride to all shopping and attractions.After a delightful br...

MONDAY 14th MAY 2012WE'RE OFF!!!Josh arrived to get us up at 7.00am and after picking Den and Sue up we were on the highway at around 7.15am and sat back in the comfort and luxury of the Coastal Charters Statesman! (Complete with a copy of the paper and bottles of water)! Traveling in style that's for sure! The traffic was quite heavy on Tonkin Highway, but we arrived at the International Terminal at just after 9am, where Josh let us off right outside the...

After nearly eighteen months of planning and organising it seems hardly believeable that it is only two days before we embark on our UK and Europe Holiday!Our cases are just about zipped up and everything around the house is in ship shape order, and we are counting down the hours!Can't wait to get to England and start to see things we have seen and heard about all our lives. We have only five days in London but I am sure we can get a great idea of what the fa...

After a good nights sleep we again packed up our things, checked out and piled into the Hotel shuttle to get us back to Dubai International Airport for the final leg of our trip. Our flight was at 10.45am so we had no need to hurry, which was great, and once we had been dropped off in the departure area we did an electronic check-in which actually worked (please take note Qantas), the conveyor whisked away our cases and then we had time to find a great little caf...