Anyway bring on the statistics:
1. Number of flights taken - 9
Quantas - 4
BA - 1
Air Asia - 1
Bangkok Airways - 3
Best flight award goes to:
Bangkok Airways
Flying from Bangkok to Chaing Mai, Chaing Mai to Bangkok, Bangkok to Cambodia - the food was pre-booked and very tasty, there was loads of room and the flight attendants were calm and gracious. Lovely!
Worst flight award goes to:
BA
Flying from LA to Heathrow - it was cramped, the food was inedible and the trolley dollies were surly and unhelpful.
2. Number of ferries - 10
This is my worst nightmare, but the number of times I vomited - 0 and that statistic numbers some of my proudest moments!
3. Number of sightseeing/transport boat trips (excluding Sydney harbour) - 18
Best trip - whale watching in New Zealand or getting soaked on Milford Sound in New Zealand or rafting on the Colorado river in Nevada, too hard to choose, loved them all.
4. Number of border crossings (not counting flying into different countries) - 9
Obviously the borders between European countries are open and free flowing, this does not stop us averting our eyes from the border patrols who are stopping cars to search them. (If you could see our car you would know why we don't want to unpack it, a place for everything and everything in it's place!)
5. Number of beds slept in - 102 (approximately!)
Most have been surprisingly comfortable, the bed in Trump Towers in Las Vegas takes first prize for size and comfort. The hard, single beds in the hostel in the Taman Negara in Malaysia were the worst, mind you we still slept, but recognised we could never make true backpackers!!
6. Funniest moments
- Being stranded on the monorail in Malaka in Malaysia and being rescued by La Bomba - and making the next days papers!
- Jim being stopped for speeding in Australia and being shouted at by the 'nice' policeman
- Forcing Italian drivers to give way to us coming off the ferry
- Jim being called 'Sir James' in Malaysia
- Jim's 'butch' haircut in German speaking Switzerland...... (I'm walking several paces behind him now, I don't want to cramp his style!)
- Me being accosted by ping pong show touts in Bangkok to the horror of the gay Irish couple walking behind us who were horrified, put their arms round me and kept saying, 'that's so wrong!'
- Arriving at the hotel in Singapore and staring in disbelief at the grown men marching up and down the swimming pool. I thought there was some weird ritual going on until one of them told me they were the New Zealand veterans hockey team 'cooling down' after their defeat to England! Hmmmm!
- Facing up to a 7 foot emu in Australia, luckily it backed down first!
- The girl on the tram in Melbourne who kept talking about the 'chicken disc' to the bemusement of her mates. We finally worked out she meant check in desk. Thank God for pelvic floor exercises!!
- Listening, disbelievingly, to the American guy who didn't know if you needed a passport to travel from Australia to the US!
7. Most poignant or moving moments
- Visiting the Killing Fields, Cambodia
- Watching the toddlers playing, and living, on the rubbish heaps in Cambodia
- Saying good-bye to Liam and Alex after Christmas
- Floating on an underground river, looking at the twinkling glow worms listening to Jenna singing
- Realising how many people are reading these inane offerings - I thank you all.
Sorry there are no photos to go with this blog, but they are now uploaded onto a 'cloud.' Let's hope I can retrieve them when I need to give that talk to the Great Ouseburn W.I.
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