The Journey out

Yesterday we travelled down to London and stayed the night at the Holiday Inn near the airport, it was a pretty easy journey down. We had to turn back after a few miles because Nuch had forgotten her purse, then about fifty miles down I realised we had forgot the pushchair which would prove to be a real pain in more ways than one!

We settled into the Hotel, unfortunately Elizabeth could sense that something was happening and it took her till midnight to get to sleep, bearing in mind we had to be up 4.30am. We were nicely ripped off by the Limo driver to the airport, remember to agree the price first or you'll get ripped off by one of our eastern european cousins!

Heathrow was ok, we were soon on the plane, we were flying with Gulf Air via Bahrain, Elizabeth could have been better behaved, but what can you expect. We landed at Bahrain, we should have had a two hour turnaround, we looked in duty free had a Mcdonalds and went to catch the flight. You guessed it a four hour delay, no explanation for the masses. We tried to settle down, however Nuch was on edge because her parents were meeting us, she had visions of them waiting four hours. Elizabeth decided it was time to become the devil child, which really wound Nuch up. We got to boarding, then a further hour delay was annouced!!!!!

We finally got on the plane, luckily Elizabeth settled down for mose of the journey and Nuch and I had chance for a breather.

On arrival at Bangkok we went through Immigration, got our cases very quickly and went in search of Nuch's parents and the hire car. We found them and I was amazed at how relaxed everyone was even though their daughter had been away for a year, oh well, must be a Thai thing.

We picked up a brand new Toyota Altis and off we went to the outlaws via the Hotel we were staying in for the night. Nuch's family were more interested in Elizabeth, we had one and a half cases full of clothes and presents for them, eventually we went back to the Hotel for a rest. Elizabeth settled down straight away. In the evening we met up with two of Nuch's workmates, they did seem a little emotional. We ate at Sizzler which is one of my favourites then after another short trip back to the outlaws it was back to the Hotel for a well earn't rest.