Leaving Europe

Her royal highness got tea delivered to her bedside by her page boy/nephew - just to kick the day off.

He was on the second day of first aid training this morning and today was dealing with bleeding customers and similar types of injuries. We had a delightful breakfast in the ball room which consisted of all the fare associated with a grand buffet as well as a full English breakfast served a la carte by Owens minions. Rushing to pack and shave the blogger then took a hunk of skin off his nose which promptly bled profusely and kept on doing with no sign of abatement. Managing to pack and check out he sat in the foyer catching up on posts with one hand while trying to stem the flow with the other.

A trip to the local pharmacy by the non-blogger resulted in some advice that worked brilliantly - Vaseline. Too easy. We then caught up with Owe for coffee and farewells in an extremely well appointed cafe across the road. We also empowered him with our new found first aid knowledge ( which was very timely given the circumstances). The drive to Manchester was through more typical English countryside and eventually onto the motorway which seemingly had no speed restrictions.

Cruising along at sometimes 140kmh was quite fun with the roads so well made it seemed effortless. We had a bit of fun finding a petrol station near the airport until the phone came to the rescue and sorted that for us as well. Basically no matter how hard we tried we could not get lost. So with the car dropped off, an easy check in and another hickup at security ( lesson not learnt - so it seems) we had a quick bite and refreshment and then onto the great seats up the front of the A380-800 to have the flight ruined by a spoilt brat and selfish family right behind us that insisted on talking for the entire overnight trip. Let's hope we don't run into them over the day or so, best to keep international relations running swearluy,,. And so it's farewell Europe and to those who chose to stay or those that will try to exit , for us we move into the last leg of the journey.