Breakfast in the hotel dining room. The dining room seemed a bit formal for the likes of us, but breakfast was very good. Rain was forecast for today, and it was raining already as we left the hotel. Still, people walked their dogs and got wet. Continue reading “Day 03, Sunday, Haverfordwest”
Day 02, Saturday, Great Malvern UK
Arrived at Heathrow at 5:30am, after 16.5 hours. Anne thought the Airbus 380 was quieter, and the food was better. I liked the 787 OK. Higher ceilings, 3-3-3 cabin layout. We freshened up, spent 30 minutes inserting Vodafone SIMs, selecting plans and topping up. Everything worked perfectly and we are +353 899726974 and 7. Then we found the rental car buses outside Terminal 3, went to Hertz and got upsold from the petrol Astra we booked to a diesel Qashqai, so we have SatNav and a 4 cylinder engine. All the petrol engines are now 3 cylinders. I don’t like the thrum of 3 cylinder car engines. The lady in the GPS sounds exactly like the British Prime Minister, so we dubbed her Theresa. Continue reading “Day 02, Saturday, Great Malvern UK”
Day 01, Friday, Melbourne
It was hundreds cheaper to fly to Perth on Qantas domestic flight 475 and join London bound QF 9 in Perth than leaving Melbourne on QF9, so here we are. I missed that we should have boarded the plane via the stairs at the rear, so we went the full length of the 737-800 to get to the rearmost seats 30a and 30b, against a tide of passengers going the other way. We made it in the end, and eventually landed in Perth to learn that we had a new Prime Minister, the sixth in 10 years, counting Kevin twice. Qantas sent us to the business lounge in both Melbourne and Perth, without me having to wave my new lifetime Gold card. It took me almost a lifetime to earn it, and it seems I don’t need it now. Continue reading “Day 01, Friday, Melbourne”