We woke, breakfasted outside on the terrace watching mr mouse run the guantlet of the street outside of Sleepy Sams, it was warm and muggy and there was much shopping to be done as neither of us had actually bought any clothing or shoes capable of withstanding the climate in the UK in February. We managed one mall, they are all large, they are all relatively faceless but packed with the usual and the unusual brands.
After a day of this we headed back, grabbed our gear and over to rodalink to do final packing and then the taxi plus bikes to the airport. Uneventful all the way really until we reached the airport, breathed in and prayed that the bikes and luggage would go through at 30kg each. seriously if you can fly emriates, the service was superb and although we were a tad over no problem and we were in the enormous state of the art airport departures with enough time for dinner and another brief shop.
On closer inspection our flight seemed to have grown legs, at least another stage as we were now flying to Dubai, which we knew but via Columbo, Sri Lanka! we waved farewell to our adventure and landed at some time in the early hours of the morning at Colombo airport where we sat on the plane, endured the deodorising sprays that are part of an odd set of regulations and then we set off for Dubai.
Dubai airport was ok, breakfast was both arms and legs required and some currency conversion and after a 3hour layover we headed forwards to Heathrow.
the flight was uneventful other than cramming in as many movies as I could and we arrived to a decidedly murky world of the UK and my bro and his truck with Charlie for the 2 hour drive home to somerset for a couple of days before taking G back to Eastbourne.
Reflections are many and they will follow sometime soon
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