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Friday, 16 July, 2010

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After leaving London Heathrow Airport to fly to Melbourne our first stop was at Copenhagen for a short stopover before boarding our SAS flight to Bangkok, which left Copenhagen at 10:25 pm, five minutes before schedule,. SAS claim to be the most punctual airline in the world and the flighst we had with them this trip certainly enhanced that reputation.

We arrived in Bangkok fifteen minutes ahead of schedule with a ten hour wait before our Thai Airline flight to Melbourne but SAS provided a room at the Novotel Airport Hotel, just ten minutes from the airport. This enabled us to have a swim, a nap and a shower and put on fresh clothes for our last leg.

We arrived back at the airport and hour or so before departure and we were advised at the Thai business lounge to allow plenty of time to walk to the departure lounge as it was a kilometre away. We probably walked past 700 metres of shops on the way and then had to wait for an additional half an hour before we could board, and then they discovered a passenger hadn’t boarded but his luggage had, so it was another hour and a half before they found his two bags and removed them. Then to add to the late night every time they started serving the meal we hit some turbulence and everyone had to return to their seat, so it was after 3:00 am before we finished dinner. In spite of the early morning we probably managed nearly five hours sleep and we were only a little over one hour late when we landed.

A quick check through customs and without a wait our bags came out on the carousel so we would soon be heading home. Wrong!! When I went to pull up the handle on my case there wasn’t one so we had to go through the procedure of reporting damaged luggage and then I had to carry the case as I couldn’t wheel it.

In spite of the delays we were home just before 4:00 pm, 45 hours since we left my cousin’s house in Kent on Wednesday morning.

A wonderful holiday and now we have all those mundane matters to attend to, check nine weeks mail, mow lawns, weed the gardens, prune the roses and try to find my car and front door key which have hidden themselves in our absence.

Now to start planning our next holiday.