Last minute checking and packing today. A visit to Myers , coffee , family visit and chat and a soccer match tonight. All good. Only one more sleep.

We've enjoyed our birthday dinners with Tommo fam and Burgess clan.

Checked last minute itinerary and ticket details, photocopied docs and registered with Aust. Travellers gov site. So all organised. Picture of Phil preparing his plane for its overseas jaunt.

Itinerary for Europe trip - Phil & San

Sept 1st - Nov 20th 2012

Saturday September 1st 15.30 QF9 B/A Qantas Flight Leave Melbourne Tullamarine

Sunday September 2nd Arrive London Heathrow 5.40 Am Via Singapore. Train Heathrow to St Pancras.

London St Pancras 8.20am Eurostar train to Paris Nord arriving 11.47am

Paris Nord to Paris Austerlitz 17.53pm train to Brive La Gailarde arriving at 22.00 (10pm)Check-in to Grand Hotel Terminus Brive 69 Avenue Jean Jaures,Brive,19100France.+33555742114. Email [email protected]

Monday September 3rd Pick up hire car - Europcar near Brive Railway Station 14.30

Travel to CookinFrance Bombel,24290,St Amand de Coly, Dordogne, France by 4pm. Jim&LucyFisher Tel 0033 553 302 405

September 3rd to 8th Cooking School Monday afternoon to Saturday morning

September 8th Saturday to 14th Sightseeing in the South of France (Hire car)

B & B Booked 8th to 13th www.sariat-en-perigord.com/lerandonneur

September 13th Car Return Brive .Stay o/nite Brive Terminus Hotel.

September 14th 5.00 Am. Train back to Paris Austerlitz arriving 9.15am. Make way to Gare de Lyon (station) 10 to 15 mins walk to catch train to Charles de Gaulle Airport.

September 14th Thursday Flight to Germany - Lufthansa LH 3221/LH 2774 12.50pm (10 to 1pm) arriving 20.10pm (10 past 8) Flight via Dusseldorf.

September 14th to 22nd With Blochers AM Kunathsberg 2, Konigsbruk 1936 Tel 3579542227

September 22nd Saturday Plane back to Paris leaving Dresden LH 213 15.10pm (10 past 3pm) arriving 18.15pm (6.15pm)( Lufthansa 1042.) Flight via Frankfurt.

Paris accommodation [email protected] Jim Urquhart Living on Levi's

September 23rd, 24th, 25th in Paris visiting Air Museum Aeroport Paris - Le Bourget BP 173 93352 Tuesdays to Sundays 10am to 6pm

The Musee d'Orsay 62 rue de Lille 8 Euros - 9.30am to 6pm Tues Weds Fri Sunday

September 26th Wednesday Travel by Eurostar return Train to London StPancras 12.13pm

Pick up hire car at Gatwick - Economy Car rentals.com - Automatic VW Polo/Ford Fiesta or similar.

Drive to Liverpool. B & B on way

September 27th Thursday to October 5th Friday in Liverpool with the Burgess Fam.

Lever court apartments 37-41 Duke St., L1 5AP Liverpool.Ph +44 871 971 2953 (24hr.)

October 5th Friday leave Liverpool , travel to Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

Stay overnight at Sandygate Hotel, Sandygate, Wath-upon-dearne, Rotherham.Tel 01709 877 827 Email : [email protected] Booked.

October 6th Saturday Booked to stay at The Barn,Biggleswade

Christine Hawkes - [email protected]

October 7th Sunday , Shuttleworth Autumn Air-show Opens 9am.

October 8 to 11th Frensham Pierrepont - Ellel Jill Southern -Jones

Catch up with Sarah & Reuben Morgan maybe.

October 12th Guildford - David & Janice Cheale , 92 Yewtree Drive,Guildford,GU1 1NZ Tel 01483823550

October 13th (Saturday) Ferry to Isle of Wight. Staying at The Pound Farm Barn Sandford

14th,15th - Isle of Wight.

October16th Tuesday Leave to return hire car to Gatwick. Stay overnight in London at Copthorne Hotel , Kensington.

October 17th Wednesday Leave on Trafalgar Tour - Grand European from London Bruges Brussels Amsterdam Heidelberg Mannheim Black Forest Engelberg Lucerne Liechtenstein Innsbruck Salzburg Vienna Venice Assisi Sorrento Isle of Capri Rome Florence Pisa Monaco Nice Avignon Beaune Paris London.

November 6th Tuesday Arrive back in London.

Train back to Canterbury - Dave & Jo to pick us up at station.

Travel to B & B in Kent near the Burgess's. Booked at Dorothy & Geoff Tomazek's Amadis B & B where we will stay 6th,7th,8th and 9th November. Sightsee around Canterbury Catch up with Jo & Dave.

November 10th Saturday Travel to Amsterdam . Train/Ferry/Train. Liverpool to Harwich. 23.15pm Stena Line Booking #28801584. 2 berth outside cabin/ Overnight boat from Harwich to Hook, Buffet Breakfast.

Nov 11th Sunday - Train to Rotterdam - train to Amsterdam Central

12 Noon Embark on Viking cruise Rhine Getaway on Viking Helvetia to Basel

November 18th Sunday Disembark Basel/Mulhouse.

Transfer to Basel Airport for Flight BA 755 leaving at 17.10 Booking Ref A1 1008 to London Heathrow arriving 17.50. Booking Ref.110083

November 18th BA 10 leaving London Heathrow 22.30 to Melbourne (via Singapore) arriving 20th November 2012 at 7.30am.

Home sweet home

All DV and in His care