Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Getting to Oz!


 A travel day


Our flight to Australia wasn’t until 9pm so we had arranged with the hotel a later check-out of 2.00pm although this cost us an extra £30 for the privilege.  So until we had to check out we just relaxed in our room blogging and watching TV.

As we knew we had a long flight in front of us with airline food we headed to a nearby Indian restaurant to get some decent food inside of us for our travels.  We both tucked into some nice claypot mutton things and shared a very large chicken Tikka and samosas.

After eating, instead of hanging round we decided to pick up our bags from the hotel and catch a taxi back to the airport early.

Arriving at the airport super early we had enough money just to buy a couple of beers to toast Asia off with, then we wandered round doing some window shopping in the airport shops whilst looking out for a travel guide to Australia.  Also knowing that booze was going to be more expensive in Oz we picked up a bottle of Gin & Vodka for our apartment in Cairns.

We then settled down in some chairs and read for a while until our gate opened.   At 8.30 we headed to our gate and were then boarding our flight for a 6 hour flight to Brisbane (to get our connection to Cairns).  Soon we were seated and plugged into our in-flight movies (Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar One & The Eddie the Eagle Movie) and hoping to get some sleep during the night.

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