Think we have finally got over the jetlag enough to publish this blog!
Monday 5th, our wedding anniversary was another rainy day, but spent in the nice hotel with breakfast delivered to our room. Our room rate included spa treatments, so we had another massage. Very nice.
The hotel restaurant was closed on Monday lunch time and is not open in the evening. Monday was Father’s day in Thailand, which meant some of the local restaurants were also closed, so we actually ended up with a take away from “Duck Noodle” a café/take away in the grounds of the Chinese temple.
Tuesday, breakfast on the patio, another spa treatment, a couple of hours in the sun near the pool before the rain started again! We had a late lunch in the hotel restaurant, chicken noodle soup and ribs. Both were fairly spicy, which was nice as some places strip all the spicy out of their dishes as soon as you order as a “westerner”.
We finished the day with a couple of drinks at our beach bar. As the weather was better than on Sunday, a few more people were in the bar.
Wednesday, was a transfer back to the airport for a flight to Bangkok, the flight was delayed for a couple of hours, so we got free access to the business lounge, via our Revolut card. (their Smart Delay offering). Finally got to our Bangkok hotel, the “Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Hotel”, which they shortened to “BS Hotel” which we found mildly amusing. The hotel was great for a short stopover £25 per night, including 15 min airport transfers (both ways).
Thursday, 6am we were on the free airport transfer, for a 8:05am 12 ½ hour flight to Helsinki. A good flight as flights go, we had a spare seat next to us. Rog managed to watch 4 moves, Nic watch 3 moves and 4 episodes of Friends. We landed in Helsinki in a blizzard, thankfully the Finns know how to deal with snow. After a 3 hour layover we were on a flight to Heathrow, and a bus to the Premier Inn. There was a clock on the bus and Nic wouldn’t believe it was showing the correct time, unfortunately it was and we had been traveling for 24 hours!
Friday morning, due to the time difference, we were having breakfast by 6:30am, treating it like lunch, Rog had cereal, full cooked breakfast followed by a couple of pastries. We certainly got our monies worth!
Got the bus back to Heathrow, then the Piccadilly line to King’s Cross (£5.50 rather than the £20 for the Heathrow Express, which only goes to Paddington). As we were early into central London, we went to the British Library to their exhibitions on “Hampi: Photography and Archaeology of southern India’, “Treasures of the British Library” and “The Philatelic Exhibition” an interesting couple of hours.
Then a train from King’s Cross to York, an uneventful trip, picked up by family, back to Pocklington and to the same AirBnB we had last December.
Spent the weekend catching up with family, watching the football and starting the process of sorting our stuff out again to get ready for our next trip. On 31 December we go to France for a couple of months in a ski resort.
Travurple 