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The last blog was sent from Kerryns and Marks place in Manchester at the end of the flight and uploading what had been written mid-flight. There would have been more since then but the Hotel WiFi provider was having difficulties :-/
Well not much more happened on the flight as it was dark, sleep was the order of the night (day), breakfast was tasty and coffee nice.
We arrived in Munich as the sun was rising and then spent the next hour on the plane as we weren't allowed to get off or disembark. No transit lounge for us which was dissappointing as a large bottle of water would have been nice.
The baby left at this time, with the mother looking forward to getting some sleep - they are from Melbourne - after allowing the grandparents and aunty to look after her daughter. Mother said to her daughter say good bye to grandfather, which Teresa laughed at.
After the additional passengers embarked we had the short flight to Manchester arriving on the tarmac 30 minutes early, this didn't make any difference as the gate wasn't ready which meant that we arrived at the terminal on time.
as usual we enjoyed the walk through customs and straight out to meet K & M who were waiting for us in 16 degree temperature at 8:30 am. We really do enjoy coming through Manchester airport even if there maybe a wait of an hour at the non-UK/EU queue which we have yet to experience.
After a quick shower, change to summer clothes from the jeans and icebreaker shirt, and a chat it was off to the train station to get the Virgin to Euston (London) and see how many people were waiting for us.
Owen met us at Euston and we caught a genuine London taxi cab to his flat in Muswell Hill, where we met two of his flatmats, gave hime the care package - GirlGuide biscuits and Whittakers Peppermint (Dark) chocolate. After checking in at The Raglan hotel we were taken on a tour of the fair town and to Ale Pali or Alexandra Palace which has grounds that give a stunning view over London city.
From there it was back up the hills to O'Neills pub which had, some would say rightly, taken over the english church and by 6:30 Kai was laughing at the two of us as we looked rather tired. She did use different words, but considering it was nearly forty hours and we had only catnapped on the plane it was incredible that we were actually still awake.
We were back at the hotel just after 7pm - 6 am Sunday NZDT, and fast asleep by 7:30.
The next few days are really full on so will update them tomorrow.
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Kerryn Hewson I love that your hotel is The Raglan Hotel. It's like having a little bit of Kiwi with you along the way. :)