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Published: November 7th 2008
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Singapore Airlines A380
This is the new A380, this shot was taken on arrival at Singapore Changi Airport. Not a bad aeroplane. ... The last couple of weeks have been fairly emotional as we have been going around saying goodby to family and friends, it has not been an easy journey, but we do consider ourselves lucky to have so many to say our farewells to......
The long awaited day has finally dawned, almost 2 years in the planning and we are here in Departures at Heathrow Terminal 3 awaiting our 10.55 flight to Singapore.... Andy is crashed out on the floor so I am using him to rest my legs as I type up the blog. Today we fly on the new A380. It was not a plane that I am particularly enamoured abou flying on - we have yet to see it but I am pretty sure it is HUGE. We are on the upper deck but don't get carried away that is not first class we are still in economy - she did offer us an upgrade for an additional £1500... but no thanks maybe next time....!
We went to bed last night at 11.00 still busy until the last minute, despite all of our planning. What seemed like 5 minutes later Andy was calling me to wake up as it was 4.00am (you have to be kidding me??). So Andy dutifully made me a cup of tea while I eased myself into the morning..... but I could not take my time with that as the taxi was due at 5.00. So a few last minute changes in our packing we were ready, the taxi arrived and bang on time we pulled out of the driveway at Pauncefoot House at 5.00 leaving the rest of the household in peace (we hoped that we did not make too much noise).
As we pulled out of the driveway, A friend of ours, DJ, pulled in as he was on his way to work (Yes... some people apparently do start work very early), he just wanted to bid us a final farewell before we headed off to the airport.
It was a dark and wet morning, the Autumn leaves were lying wet on the roads as we headed up through Winchester and onto the M3 (which is probably about where I stopped blubbing!)... the journey seemed long and quiet - I was tempted to ask the taxi driver to put the radio on, but I didn't.
We arrived at terminal 3 just after 6.00 waited 2nd in line at the check in desk (the chap before us left Birmingham at 3.00am to get there in time), check in opened at 7.00, we were both very nervous as we knew that we were well over our 20kg allowance so held our breath when our luggage went on the conveyor, mine weighed in at about 22.5kg and Andy's weighed a wopping 27.5 (so who takes more clothes than me then??), before knew it we were having breakfast and gathering thoughts before we came into departures, which is where I am sat now waiting for the gate number to be announced.
We have had so many wonderful good luck messages and thank you all very much for those. Promise to get round to replying to everyone in good time. This is the first time in weeks that I feel that I have been able to sit and concontrate on something and hopefully start to relax.
Just remember to send us comments and messages to keep us updated with what is happening in your lives (thanks Keeley for your working week update - you are making me miss work already!!!!).
Thank you to Len and Sarah at Pauncefoot House for their hospitality, we will miss them both, and grateful that they put up with comings and goings and all of our gear that we still needed to sort out before putting into storage (I think I have moved everything - you can have your house back now).
We really will miss you all very much and look forward to seeing you on the blog, skype or facebook or hopefully in Australia.
Take Care
Love
Caroline (&Andy) Ps we have just been called to gate 1 (makes a change - we usually end up the furthest away).
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