Auckland – Shanghai, 2 hours to transfer, China stamp in passport then onto Zurich – 12.5 hours flying over land, 1 hour transfer in Zurich then on to London. By the time we arrive at Heathrow we’re pretty shattered and grateful to be met at the airport by the pre-arranged pick-up service.
Most of the English tourism people we've met are really friendly with a wicked "English" sense of humour.
The trip went flawlessly. It was heaven to hop into a hot shower and brush my teath! We were too stuffed to go out to eat. Jem had collapsed in a heap on his bed within 15 minutes of arrival and I followed him at about half past 8 or so after we made a few text messages home.
We’re staying in a small hotel in Westminster near Victoria Station and have a small but very comfortable twin room and slept pretty well through until about 5ish in the morning.
This morning (Saturday morning) we woke early and enjoyed our first decent (ie non-airline) food since Auckland with a really nice continental breakfast in our Hotel.
Before leaving we went outside to check out the temperature to be met by a pretty cold blast of wind.
It has been a pretty cold day… singlet, long sleaved t shirt, jersey and jacket and we were only just warm enough. Will take my beanie tomorrow. Should have though about gloves too… I think we’re going to be much colder in Poland.
We grabbed tickets for The Big bus Company double decker tour bus. They’re running a bonus special – 24 hour tickets extended to 48 hours so we’ll get two days out of the tickets. You jump off and on at any of their many stops. The buses are commentated which makes a big difference, seeing everything in context.
After landing at Heathrow which was the grottiest of the 3 other airports we’d used by a mile, London itself was very clean and looks well looked after.
I couldn’t face dragging a large camera around all day so took my point and shoot so you can see some of the stuff we enjoyed.
It’s 7 pm and we’re feeling a bit jet lagged but not too bad. I thinkt he “no jet-lag” pills that we religiously took on the plane have worked. Jem needed a caffiene boost after lunch to keep him going and collapsed on his bed once we got back to our hotel about an hour ago. Actually he’s asleep now… I’ll have to wake him to go and get some dinner soon. I hope I can move him!
We spotted a nice corner pub just across the road. Better get on with that…. Will try and connect to the wifi here and post this and pictures for you to see. We can get 1/2 an hour of pretty weak wifi for 1 pound – not a bad deal. If you’re reading this on your Sunday morning then it worked.
Check out the London photos...
Cheers
Doug
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