Cambridge

Away by just after 9am to Hammersmith Station, where the Group of 4 said their goodbyes – Pete was off to Wales and then Ireland, Trudz was headed for Paris (maybe) and Dean and I were making for Cambridge.  Amazingly everything ran to schedule and we arrived in the university town at 11am.  Jay picked us up and we pretty much messed around all day – walked into town, had a mediocre lunch at Wetherspoons (yes, that will be the last time I eat there with any luck), a general wander round the shops and then emails, blogs, washing and other such excitements in the evening.

The following day we spent all afternoon at the Duxford air museum  (near Cambridge) being plane spotters.  It’s pretty pricey at 16 quid, but there are just an incredible number of planes and helicopters, weapons, interactive exhibits, historical info and all kinds of other stuff.  Including an overpriced and very average lunch.  Hmm, I’m sensing a theme here.  Highlights (other than the meal of course) included walking round inside a Concorde, the B52 bombers, a Harrier jumpjet and the Blackbird stealth jet.  As well as seeing an Apache helicopter gunship doing laps of the aerodrome for ages.  All in all, a good way to spend three or four hours I reckon.

Sasha excelled herself with dinner once again, and that was pretty much the day done, other than booking flights and accommodation in Copenhagen for a long weekend.  On a roll with the booking thing, we trawled the travel agencies yesterday and managed to sort out a  flights and accommodation package to Kos (Greek Islands again, but on the Aegean side this time) for Dean’s birthday week.  This was much more of a hassle (and more expensive) than we thought, due to XL airlines (third largest in the UK and a major provider of package trips to Europe) going bust the week before.  Bugger.  On the upside, I discovered that (a) I had enough award points to get me back to Australia from here, and (b) amazingly there was an award seat on a flight to Sydney via LA & Brisbane on October 6.  So, all going well, I’ll be back in Australia on the 8th or so, spending a few days in Sydney before going to Melbourne – and this big adventure finally coming to an end, five months and tens of thousands of miles (and dollars) later.  But still plenty of fun to be had before then, starting with Denmark tomorrow…

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