Sydney-Dubai-London
This is the third time we’ve caught the insanely early 6am Emirates flight out of Sydney. To soften the blow of getting up at 3am, we’re staying at Rydges hotel about 50m from the terminal. As we both sat in the dining room with mess still all around us at 4pm on the afternoon before our flight, we agreed it would just not work leaving earlier in the day!
Checked in at Ridges and hopped in the crowded lift where John decided to have an eBay moment.”Pooh” he said as we entered, “Cigarette smell”!A lady we’ll call ‘Ros’ who was crushed in the corner bravely confessed it was her…”Sorry just couldn’t stand it. Had to duck out for a ciggy”. The captive audience enjoyed the joke at John’s expense!
John will claim that he thought the smell came from outside the lift and whooshed in when the doors closed, but honestly, don’t pick on Ros, John!
Loved the view from our room,
but not the kind message left by hotel management!
Doesn’t matter we thought, we’re up at 3am anyway!
Trekked over to Cooks River Rowers for dinner, quite popular with the locals and really going upmarket with social media!
Enjoyed a nightcap at the rooftop bar,
then headed to bed.
First leg to Dubai packed like sardines, but relatively smooth. We had just enough time to say hi to our camel friends and a genie or two,
then it was off to find our next departure gate.
Getting into the mood and in preparation for our canal barge trip around the Manchester area, we both chose the same movie to watch.
Pretty amazing story! But not much of a movie!
Luxuriating in a whole row to ourselves, we managed to get some kip before touching down at Heathrow.
We had great directions from Katie and Chris about getting to Kings Cross
and they were both there to meet us for the short walk to their little London bolthole. It was SO SO good to see them!
Kanga And Wombats Adventures 