Five Days until Departure.

Spread out in my bedroom, in front of me with less than five clear days to go before jetting off from Heathrow to San Francisco, are around 40 pages of vouchers, travel arrangements, “small-print” & other travel documents to wade through; it is now MY responsibility to see that all is correct before travelling firstly to London on Wednesday and then from Heathrow, the following afternoon. This will may well be the only time that I set off on a journey where I venture ever westwards until, eventually, I end up back at home, some 73 days later. The “hard work” is in both California and Australia, both explored on long distance rail journeys…I can’t wait! The Pacific crossing to Sydney, on board Cunard’s Queen Victoria, to Australia, and back from Dubai on Queen Mary 2, should be plain sailing…

I get to revisit Singapore and Dubai on my return from Perth. Much of the international flying is with Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines, allegedly No. 1 in the top airlines of the world. It probably is in Business Class!

Future blogs should become progressively interesting as I find myself in some unlikely far flung corners of the world.

All the best for now,

David