Day Six Hundred and Thirty Nine

Updated 15/3

Relates to Sunday 13th March

We woke up late after a late night yesterday. We didn't drag ourselves out of bed until 10am. Spent the morning in Old Basing eating good Sunday morning English breakfast.

We then set about packing up all our belongings. We brought far too much stuff over with us from the UK, and with all the superb gifts etc we have received in England we are squeezing everything into the cases.

Soon enough it was time to leave Old Basing, say good bye to Hazel and Peter once again and head back to Yateley to finish off the packing.

More packing and a quick trip to the shops and it was off to the airport again. The airport goodbyes with the folks are never easy and this one was no exception. It's made a little easier knowing we'll be back this year for Christmas but still a good 8 months til we see them again.

We went through to Departures, had dinner in the pub at T3.

Had a bloody nightmare trying to board, Heathrow really is a s*ithole, the gate was too small to accommodate the contents of a 777, the PA system didn't work which resulted in uninterested ground staff trying ot shout to 300 people and get them to board in order....crap crap crap.

Finally got away (took off late as usual) and started the first of 2 legs back to Oz. Slept most of the way to Dubai.