Not quite “Hobart here I come!”

Thursday 16 January 2025

Flight Update

It is always a complete pain in the proverbial when plans change! Qantas flight, blah, delays, blah, staff need to rest, blah, blah, bloody blah.

Not flying out of Heathrow at 8pm tonight, but instead getting taxi at 4:30am to leave at 9am tomorrow.  Not having 2-hour stopover in Singapore, 14 hours to kill instead.

Not switching from international to domestic in easy old Melbourne, but rather having the best 5.5 hours of my life dragging around Kingsford Smith Airport.

This is the stuff that holidays are made of.

So I am having ONE MORE LAST SLEEP with Olivia (we have shared a bed or a room every night since I arrived) and then making lots of lemonade in Singapore. You’ll see.

The last days in  London

Olivia and I returned from Morocco late on Monday night and mooched around SE14 for most of Tuesday; washing clothes, not photographing cats, resting.

This was all preparation for the last full day with Sally, to explore new parts of London and make memories together. We caught the train to the O2 to a Darning Exhibiton. We spend half an hour or sew (ha) proving our worth as pilgrim wives.

The next stop was the cable car across the Thames to the Trinity Bouy Lighthouse. This is London’s only lighthouse, used by Farady to conduct experiments and even used as a training centre.

We wandered around in the mist, taking in the moody London mood. We stopped at the tree car cafe for a cuppa and then moved on.

Olivia departed to meet friends for dinner and salasa dancing while Sally and I researched entertainment for the evening.  After failing to find reasonably priced last-minute tiks for live theatre, we opted to see Nosfuratu; a gothic, vampire horror movie. 

We thought we were very brave choosing this one, but in fact, it was more funny than scary.  Good cinematic effects, capturing the early black and white movie techniques, but I didn’t feel horrified at any point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)