UK, Singapore & Home

Friday 10th Nov - Home Sweet Home, even though it is 2:30am!










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Wed 8th Nov: Arrived in Singapore around 2:30pm after a 13 hour flight from London, having to be at Heathrow 3 hours before the flight, we travelled for about 18 hours! We were pretty knackered but Bruce caught up with Simon at Clarke Quay and Brenda slept..

Tomorrow we fly to Perth, HSH, it will only be 8 hours of travel.

This is what the street looks like from the 53rd story at our hotel, Swissotel the Stamford.

Check out the topless bather in the swimming pool!










Tues 7th Nov: Spent the morning doing some last minute sight seeing before leaving London for Heathrow. Dropped in to see Liz & Phil at Buck House, but they had visitors and we couldn't wait so she missed out. Should get a note from her soon thanking us for the jar of Vegemite. Nice house though. Earles Court for lunch. Once your out of the city, food prices drop dramatically, by about 150% Our last day in UK, off to the airport at around 2:30pm to fly to Singapore. To our relief Singapore Airlines didn't slug us for excess, even though we had 61Kg's!

Mon 6th Nov: Sight seeing again, travelled around London on the "Tube" (Underground). It is an amazing service and most stations are located at all the tourist spots. During the day the wait for any train was only a couple of minutes.

Also visited the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, to witness the Harrison Clocks (H1-4) still ticking away is one of the highlights. The H1 clock sailed with Captain Cook, he's stopped, but not the H1.

You can travel from East to West in less than a second!

This is what it looks like on top of the London Eye, about 200m from the ground. In the evening, we had dinner in Piccadilly Circus and went to a West End theatre to enjoy Mumma Mia at the Prince of Wales Theatre. DC Rod Skase (Iain Fletcher) from the Bill played the leading part in the story - great show.

Sun 5th Nov: Spent the day on the hop on hop off bus, so far the weather has been clear, but VERY cold. Your shadow is about 4 metres at 1:00pm, the sun is setting around 4:30pm, so by about 2:00pm we were in the bottom of the bus out of the cold. Saw heaps though, all the usual tourist spots, Big Ben, House of Parliment, Buck Palace, Westminster Cathederal (ABC), Tower of London, Harrods (yep - got the tea towel and Harrods bag!) and Madame Tussauds - you just gota go!

Here we are in Baker Street with Sherlock, Madame Tussauds is the green dome in the background.

Sat 4th Nov: Not much happened today, drove from our hotel in Hayes to London which took about 4 hours, we were only 40Km's from the city but kept getting lost. The GPS didn't work to well in London. Arranged to drop the car off in London, but nobody told me that it had to be back by 1:oopm, so had to drive all the way back to Heathrow to drop it off. Not happy Jan.

Fri 3rd Nov: Left Bath after a quick tour and headed off the Hayes via Stonehenge.

We were aiming to get to Hayes before 5:00pm to airfrieght our extra case back. At this stage our three siutcases weighed 94 Kg's and excess baggage will cost us $AU40 per Kg. Sent 35Kg's

Managed to make it, but I nearly fell over when they gave me the bill - $AU409.00 bugger.

Rocks!

Thu 2 Nov: Left Plymouth late in the afternoon after meeting up with Wayne's aunty and headed for Bath. Bath is about the only city in England that didn't get the crap bombed out of them, so it was interesting to see buildings 500 to 600 years old. Bath was built by the Romans around 1200AD and gets it name from the Roman Bath built there over a hot spring.

Check out the low denisty housing! There's 15 chimneys on each stack.