Homeward Bound

LT 15 July Heathrow Airport (posted at Singapore Changi Airport)

Well here we are… about 5 hours on solid ground between now and home, in 29 hours from now.  Crazy concept.  We’re thankful to be on Qantas, with all the excitement and positive energy that generates from the children. Peter and I both remember travelling in the good old days when there was one big movie screen for the whole plane, one movie and a few radio channels.  (Ha ha wasn’t too much before that we would have taken 6 weeks on a boat!)

After we’d enjoyed another breakfast at Travelodge, we got ourselves organised to do a huge load of laundry at the local Laundromat (mostly wet clothes from Farnborough – couldn’t bear the thought of dealing with that after two days in a suitcase!)  Having tidied up and done our final final pack, and with a whole afternoon left to fill, we decided to find a local movie theatre and go to Ice Age 4.  Unfortunately our plans didn’t take into account taking 20 minutes to find a carpark which was a good 10 minutes’ walk from the movie theatre, and then, having missed the session we’d planned to go to, discovering that they play at least 20 minutes of trailers before the movie – which would have made our carpark expire and also made us late for our appointment to drop off the car.  So sadly we didn’t get to see the movie, and settled for an icecream and a promise to go and see it next weekend at home.

We set the GPS to the coordinates of the Peugeot drop-off agent at Heathrow.  We had arranged a fairly early appointment, not wanting any last minute dramas to upset our flight home… not that we were anticipating any problems with our lease of course! The fact that the phone number for the agent which was printed in the official booklet, and repeated to us by Peugeot when queried, wasn’t the right number, and we had to confirm our drop off by email to a general address, the response to which said something like “no problem, we’ll pass that information on to our Milan office” meant that we had total (!?) confidence.  As it happened the drop-off was very smooth and easy and we were at the terminal with several hours to spare.

After careful study of the available food outlets we were able to spend all our remaining pounds, down to 47p change… just hope there is no departure tax or anything!  The highlight of our airport experience was Katriel getting patted down at security.  She thought it was pretty neat!

So this is the end of the line! Our next project is this -> raising $4000 for a water tower at the ABCs and Rice school by the end of the year.  If you have any suggestions let us know J

For now, that’s it.  Homeward bound.  Over and out.