Sunday, October 21, 2007

Tuesday 2 October 2007. Day 43. Holiday Inn Atrium Singapore – Fly to Melbourne.

Get up early as we have to sort out all our luggage, plus send parcels off. Have buffet breakfast, then Ieuan heads off to internet café to type up our blog.

Lou starts to go through kit, working out what can be sent home, and what can be dumped. After half an hour, Ieuan returns as internet place closed, so goes to use the hotel internet and uses the half hour he bought yesterday but didn’t use as the computer had been left open. By lunchtime, Lou had sorted through the bags and we are almost packed. Went and had pizza at the hotel bar, chatting to the waiter who was from Sandakan!

After lunch, Lou went to the post office to buy boxes, and Ieuan went internetting again! By 3.30pm, we were packed up and ready to check out, and then go and post 2 boxes from the post office. Sent both by surface mail, and then got taxi to the airport.

Checked in our backpacks, plus the large empty holdall we bought for storing stuff at the hotel. Had a look round the airport shops for a mobile hard drive before having tea – veggie Thali for Ieuan and soup for Lou. Headed to the gate to board. Usual seating arrangements – Ieuan luxuriates in the window seat with lots of room, whilst Lou is trapped in the middle with a sleeping Aussie to the right!

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