• Goodbye - Dubai

    March 14 in England ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C

    Woke up to a beautiful morning on this, Day 56 and final day of our travels. Showered and breakfasted, and thankfully, both suitcases 🎒🎒fastened shut 🙏 with a combined weight of around 55kg. we are in a taxi 🚕 on our way to the airport 🛫.
    After a surprisingly easy and quick check-in, we through passport control and security and in our departure terminal via the monorail 🚝 and waiting at the gate for our boarding announcement, which came early only we were sat on the plane an hour before take off as a couple of bags had to be off-loaded from our Airbus A380. Eventually, we were next in line and off we set on our journey home flying over Iran, Turkey, Germany, and Holland, to name just a few countries on our flight path. Seven and a half hours later, we are landing at Manchester Airport and quickly through immigration only to wait for our cases that arrived half an hour apart from each other!!
    Train 🚆 from Manchester Airport 🛫 to Poulton-le-Fylde and then a taxi 🚕 home 🏡 completed our adventure of:
    Travelling over 25,000 miles
    Visiting 4 Countries on 3 Continents taking 9 Flights, 2 Train Journeys, Hiring 3 Cars, taking 1 Ferry Crossing, staying in 26 different hotels, and 28 different hotel rooms
    Meeting so many lovely people
    Seeing Kiwis, Cockatoos, parrots, kangaroos, wallabies, dolphins, Sperm Whales, Orcas, blue penguins, and wild turkeys in their natural habitat.
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