Penny checking her jeans ready for a long leg.
Maybe it's an age thing but the Singapore to London leg seems to get longer, obviously a perception thing as the Uk to not drifting further away and the planes are no slower. I'm not sure the flight maps are such a good thing, giving as they do time to destination. 13 hour, 12 hours 30 minutes, you drift off to sleep wake up 12 hours and 10 minutes. Was I only asleep for 20 minutes!!! I must admit once you get to Afganistan and your halfway there its all downhill and it does get a bit quicker. Then there's only an hour to go, your bum is still numb but there is hope that you will get out of this infernal metal tube. Penny has suffered this trip as she started of with a bad chest cold and arrived feeling dreadful. She will soldier on and get better now that she has her feet on terra firma.
There she is, Airbus A380, nice plane but still a metal tube only bigger!
Well we have now arrived and ensconced in M4J4, a Holiday Inn only 2 minutes from the Europcar depot. We had a nice surprise picking up the car, although we had only specified a manual Astra size vehicle on the booking I asked if they had any diesels for the fuel economy. The lovely wonderful person who served us said she would see what she could do, came back and said we do have a Peugeot 3008, "sold" says I, so for the same money we ended up with a bigger diesel car with auto gears, satnav and reversing camera. Result.... As we had the same car last year we know where everything is and Penny has her huge centre console, air-conditioned bottomless pit that she loved last time. No melty Penguin chocolate bars then.
Been up for an hour ready to face the day, Onto Brighton, back to Haywards Heath for lunch then onto Ro and Mikes at Fleet.