Made it after 33 hrs or so travelling...

Made it to the UK - Phew! Had our bags checked three times - everywhere except Heathrow, believe it or not! Brisbane, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Travel time was well over 30 hrs! Left Toowoomba at 7.30 Monday morning, got to the UK about 4.30 Australian time Tuesday afternoon. My feet still feel like they've been bitten by a bee, swollen and itchy. Anybody who flies to the UK from Aus on a regular basis deserves a round of applause (or a slap to the face for being so stupid!). We got to the Hostel at 9.30am, only to find it opens at twelve... so we had to find a pub to sit down at - oh well. Had my first real English breakfast at aforesaid pub, costing $6.25! Bloody terrific! A pint was about the same price, which is pretty good.

Back to the plane trip, started off pretty good, entertained myself with the notion that our visit to Singapore was not on the itinerary and being the international man of mystery I am, I could easily drop off the map, so to speak. Back to reality though and the second leg was proving more challenging comfort wise, that was until I had two beers and a baileys - good night! We had to spend three hours in Abu Dhabi airport which wasn't too bad. I just people watched mainly. It seems strange how middle-eastern men just went up to each other and started conversations. One group was sitting around when a bloke pulled out a bag of food. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I had a guess -

Bloke with dodgy moustache - "Oi fellas, me missus packed me some of this mincy stuff and a shitload of flat bread. You want some?"

Slovenly bloke beside him - "Yeah man, that'd be great"

Later on....

Slovenly bloke - "MMM, great stuff mate. Your missus cooks a mean feed"

Bloke with dodgy moustache - "Yep"

Okay, so that wasn't very exciting, but it filled in some waiting time. I got very tired of having my bag checked and rechecked - three times in all. My impressions of London so far... to be honest, it's like Brisbane with Toowoomba weather and crap paper money (savages). We're heading back into the city soon to try and see something touristy before the day is over.

written by

10bastards on November 25, 2008 from London, United Kingdom

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haha Brisbane with Toowoomba weather? hunny regardless of how accurate that may be describe it maybe in a slightly more appealing way can you? :P SO if your in london now.. where were you with the mind the gap stuff? are you gong to bristol? tell shelly that i am under the great understanding (advice) that there is awesome shopping there.. however actually she used to live in englad so maybe scrap that..

Have you seen the queen yet? spoken any cockney? :P
i want to hear some mister!!

hope your having an AWESOME time!

written by Amsley on November 25, 2008

That conversation sounds 'rell good' in the gin voice...

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Roobeh on November 28, 2008

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