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USA, UK and Norway

We start with a week in San Diego visiting Michael’s family. We fly to London and spend 6 days there, then north to spend time with Omnia and Gill and Bob. Next the 12 day walk along Hadrian’s Wall and then Norway and a boat up the coast and fjords Read more
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  • Rosie MarzoukUSA, UK and NorwayTraveler

    Wednesday in Los Angeles

    October 23, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Yesterday was a travel day pretty ghastly, but all worked smoothly. Our transfer at Heathrow went like a dream. Arrived from Copenhagen on time, entered the UK (all electronically now) collected the bags, navigated from terminal 5 to terminal 2 and checked in with Air New Zealand with plenty of time. The ghastliness was an 11.5 hour daytime flight, starting 4.15m UK time, and ending at 7.40pm LA time (3.30am for us)... spending 2 nights here at airport Hyatt hotel. Just woken early. My iPad keyboard has gone berserk so won’t say more now. Have to retype almost every word,...all okRead more

  • Rosie MarzoukUSA, UK and NorwayTraveler

    Thursday - fly home tonight

    October 24, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 20 °C

    This is going to be a long day! We have woken early (in fact we both woke initially at 3am) ...managed a little dozing after...but our flight doesn’t leave till 11.45pm!!

    Yesterday we had a good time, hanging out in Santa Monica, and adjusting to Californian sunshine and warm weather. We can get a bus from just near the hotel here at the airport to Santa Monica, and we can walk from here to the terminals, so extremely handy. Had coffee at our favourite coffee shop, had dinner at Mercado, one of our favourites at SM.

    Spent a fruitful time in the Apple store also!! I usually hate all the noise and activity there, but when you need something they are extremely helpful. And I achieved 2 things - firstly they replaced the battery in my iPhone, which had been totally misbehaving, dropping down to 1% very rapidly but amazingly functioning as a camera without actually dying...but when I am back and will be using it as a phone I do need a functioning battery. So they actually did it on the spot, hardly any waiting, and while I waited I bought a new cover for my iPad as the old one was disintegrating. A productive morning.

    So today we will again go to Santa Monica, have coffee etc, then hop on another bus to go to the Getty - there is a Manet exhibition that had not yet started when we went though about 6 weeks ago. Then we may also go to the Hamer gallery and eat in Westwood before finally wending our way back to the airport - bags left at the hotel. This should be a better flight - a nighttime flight - but of course we will feel a bit fuzzy as goodness knows what time we think we’re on.

    Thank heavens my keyboard seems to be back to normal...don’t know if I had cream on my fingers which meant it wouldn’t register my taps...nothing different from normal I would think, but it was a nightmare! Back to real life tomorrow (i.e. Saturday).    Read more

  • Rosie MarzoukUSA, UK and NorwayTraveler

    Last entry - Home Sweet Home

    October 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Liv says I should end this blog back home, so here we are! We arrived back on Saturday morning to a very hot and windy Sydney day....NOT my sort of weather, and specially not after the lovely cool of Norway and Denmark. It wasn’t a wonderful flight - we usually enjoy Virgin Australia, but somehow the attendants were wooden, not the usual friendly laid back types we usually have, and the food was inedible....I know airline food is not gourmet, but this was truly awful (and again not the normal for them). Oh well, we also left late - again unexplained - were not in the air till after 1 am, but having said all that I did take a pill and slept quite well and didn’t wake till about 6 am Sydney time, so am almost back to normal.

    This is a very long a boring description of the flight back, but it has been one of our best trips..particularly the Norway times as that was new to us and SO beautiful. And “cruising” on the Hurtigruten ship was a great experience. We have caught up with the Sertori family yesterday and look forward to seeing Paul, Tallie and offspring this week. All is good, and we already have a travel plan for next year in our minds - another Camino in France. So now I can officially sign off from this trip!    Read more

    Trip end
    October 26, 2019
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