So it was to begin, a journey of many up's & down's!
For me, it started with emergency washing & drying of my clothes!
Shirts hanging from my fan, windows opened fully & aircon on max. A day which was filled with excitment.
By 1pm I had sucsessfully complete my packing & had all Michelle's folded ready to be dropped into her case, so i headed to the pool for an hour to catch and admire the last bit's of sun i will have for the next 3 weeks.
I headed out to meet Michelle at 3 and to pick up the last bit's & peices we needed before the off. Unfortunatley the Zara coat was weird and so we decided not to buy an there left Michelle coatless for her holiday! But we did manage to grab some lunch, and to pick up the Coffee Bean Bear as a gift for my Mam.
Termanil 3 was impressive, we arrived very early by cab to try & secure seats with extra leg room for me! Amazingly we managed to get for both flights, wow, how i needed these. We had quickly a pint & wedges at the local Harrys within the airport, awaiting our turn to go through to Duty Free.
Once inside we were impressed, i think it's only 1yr old, but still looks and feels brand new. We shopped abit with me picking up some cool water & shits and kept a lookout for the much talked about post bar. After asking 2 information desks we finally found the bar, but by this time we had to make our way down to our Gate.
Still filled with excitment we boarded our flight to Shanghai, emergency seats we had, so the crew insisted we had to read through the emergency procedures.
Once in the air, we got served our first plane food of the journey, unfortunatley this trip there was no alcohol, very strange for a 6hr flight, we were not impressed, we slept most of the way to Shanghai.
Now at Pudong Airport in Shahai, the transfer process was long and painfull, a que of people transferring to different flights all standing in one que, with one girl taking her sweet time. Somewhat agrovating me, but 30mins later we were toddling through the airport, not to sure if we had to collect our bags or not we asked a few people for clarification. Then suddenly, we were outside, quite funny as i did not have a china visa, but we took the time for a quick picture the darted back inside for some refreshing and some rest.
Once checked in, we quickly reliesed that the airport had little to offer compared to T3 of Singapore, Michelle sat with me lying down and we slept for 2-3hrs. Upon waking up, we hit a little cafe inside and had steamed dumplings and french fries with a coffee, wow so nice. haha
Then it was time for our 2nd plane, and i'm happy to say, they served alcohol. Sitting in exactley as the first flights, we once again had to read the emergency procedures sheet.
This flight was abt 12hrs, we on & off slept and ate, starting the full journey with few beers to relax us.
We arrived at Heathrow bang on time(Michelle: arrived at 7pm, in the custom queue at 715pm, out of airport in like 30minutes-( idiot custom officer asked me lotsa craps, and pretty unfriendly and harsh. Who the hell knew I need to carry my leaving boarding pass with me when I only just arrived? Didn't let her get in my way. She and her Muthu's ass. Cockney shit¬...) Anyway, out of airport, called for assistance with the telephone found on the unattended hertz booth, called for the hire van, got to hertz hire car company at T1 at 8pm, and we hit the road with the fiat car at 8.15pm!xx), and to our amazment it was quiet, think we were at T2, i quickly dashed through passport control and collected the bags, Michelle followed abt 10mins later and within 30mins we had been collected by a Hertz minbus on the way to collect our car.
The car was a little new Fiat Punto, a silver/blue colour and this would be the first manual car i would drive since my last holiday in the uk, excited for the journey, we bumped straight out, and flew up the M25 and M1.
First service station we stocked up on chocolate and redbull, we tried to call Bob to see if he could help us out with our suprise arrival, but knowone was in! Hmmm... We were a little worried incase they had left for the weekend, but we carried on, Michelle snoozing and me trancing at the cats eyes. Second service station i grabbed a coffee to perk me up slightly, but within minutes of leaving a needed a pee, so the third service station came quickly after. By this time it was 20+hrs of traveling and was 12 midnight, i was sleepy, s we pulled over for a couple of hors kip. Waking up, we jumped straight back on tho the A1 and were away again.
The arrival to Aston Way was at 4am, knocking on the door was pointless, so i phoned, my Mam thought i was joking at first, but within a second was at the door welcoming us, a second behind her was a very sleepy Abbie, then a moment later a Bob! haha...
It was a nice arrival and we caught up for a while drinking hot chocolate, and giving Ab's her 100 Hello Kitty presents we had shipped over with us.
Her face was a sheer delight, even at this time in the morning. We departed off to bed at around 6am, and bless, Abbie was just to excited with her gifts to sleep.
The first day, i flew up to the airport early to drop off the hire car, with Bob on my tail for the return journey. We grabbed Rich on the way back then headed straight out to find Michelle a winter Jacket to help her in this extrweme cold weather. TK Max, just as i remember is a wkd shop, here we got the jacket and we quickly dashed to town to browse for a while and had a drink at the Bridge before heading home. A lazy evening watching movies and a early night as we were all pooped.
Monday was also a lazy day for us, we dashed off with our Gran & Mam to Tesco's which is a beast of a super market. I pushed Gran round in a wheelchair while we got a big shop in.
Michelle & I picked up Ab's from school and had a nice Chicken & Chips dinner. Later part of the evening we went to Fonz's house with Jig, chilled in & caught up with old times. Michelle snoozed on the sofa. haha
Tuesday was a busier day, we walked Abbie to school, then hopped onto the bus to town. I picked up a couple of pairs of jeans and we got 2 England shirts for a complete bargin. Couple shirts we now have! :) In the evening, i spoke to Andy in Paris and curled up on the sofa. We all ended up asleep.
Now it's Wednesday, and we are about to pack for the trip to Prague. Wooo Hooo
See Ya
x
(Michelle: My turn next to write for the following few days! In Prague from 22th to 25th Oct, to party like a rock star! haha. Stay Tuned...)
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