We woke early on Wednesday morning to a leisurly breakfast at the hotel and a read of the newspapers. After checking we'd got everything, we checked out of the hotel and caught the hoppa to terminal 4 at Heathrow and joined the check-in queue. While queueing, we asked after possible upgrades and decided that, for a 12 hour flight, it was worth the ( Read more... )

Monday was a day of finalising the packing, taking The Bloke's car for a check-up, me going for a relaxing facial and spending the evening with a meal and glass of wine. Everything had been checked and double checked. The bags had been weighed by the simple expediancy of weighing The Bloke on the bathroom scales then asking him to pick up each case ( Read more... )

This entry is to create a marker for my reports on the Eclipse of the Century trip of the last fortnight. I plan to write a number of small entries with pictures (with and without cut-tags). This series is not friends-locked.