From Les Duex Alpes, we got a bus to Lyon Airport. We had to
wait six hours at the airport because of the late planning (two days before),
this was the longest I have ever waited at an airport. We just sat there and
waited, and waited, and waited, until finally our flight time arrived (at 8 o’clock).
We arrived into London Luton Airport very late and staggered to
our accommodation, Emily and I fell asleep instantly even though we were
sleeping on an uncomfortable sofa bed.
The next day, we got our hire car and picked up our bags that we
had left with our half-sister and started to make our way up to the Lake
District. On our way there we stopped at a little English pub for lunch, I had
fish and chips. They were YUMMY!
We stayed two nights in a little apartment in Kendal, in the
Lake District. On our first day there, visited the big lake in Windemere, the
lake was absolutely beautiful, in fact, the whole Lake District is stunning,
with its rolling green hills and stone walls separating each property, it was the
perfect spot for Emily and Mum to go horse riding. The only downside was the
temperature, but that’s the UK.
“We are officially in Scotland!” I proclaimed as we drive
past the big light-blue sign with a white cross on it. Our flight home was
leaving from Edinburgh the next day so we had time to see my Gran and Dad had
to sort out some bank stuff. After visiting two different banks, (that were 30
minutes away from each other) we drove to Gran’s house to say hello.
Gran was doing pretty well, despite not being able to get
out, and not seeing to many people. While we were there, Uncle Mark and my
cousin Lauren popped in as well. From Gran’s house, we drove halfway to
Edinburgh and had a night in a cabin in Lanarkshire. We had chicken biryani and
korma for dinner (Unfortunately I will always be disappointed by chicken
biryani after the divine one I had in Singapore).
The day of coming home (6 months early) has arrived! ☹☹☹
Our flight wasn’t until 6 o’clock, so we had some time to burn. First, we
visited New Lanark which was a cloth mill back the day, there were some pretty
waterfalls and a nice walking track next to them. William Wallace (Braveheart)
once visited New Lanark.
I don’t really need to go into our time waiting at the airport,
it wasn’t very interesting, although we did find the Scottish announcers pretty
funny. The flight was nothing interesting, we just watched stuff and slept.
When we finally arrived at Dubai airport, our transit point, we were all pretty
tired but we managed to get to our gate and, eventually get onto our flight.
From Melbourne Airport, we had to quickly pop back to our house to pick up a few things before driving out to our holiday house for 14 days of compulsory quarantine, but that’s a story for another day (or another blog).
