• Keith Eckersall
  • Jayne Eckersall
tammik. – maalisk. 2025

Greatest Adventure Yet....

56-päiväinen seikkaillu — Keith & Jayne Lue lisää
  • A Tasty Fayre

    12. maaliskuuta, Yhdistyneet Arabiemiirikunnat ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Back on the monorail 🚝 we carried on to the tip of the Palm 🌴 and the Atlantis Hotel 🏨 and feeling hungry headed straight to the restaurants and Chef 👨‍🍳 Gordon. The Bread Street Kitchen & Bar was very quiet, no shouting or swearing 🤬 not like a Gordon Ramsey Restaurant we see on TV at all 😁, but our waiter Manjula assured us he is a very nice person 😉. After fish 🐟 and chips 🍟 for Jayne and a lovely Super Food Salad 🥗 with chicken 🐔 for me (did I get that the correct way around? 🤣). After our lovely meal, we then shared an Apple Crumble with ice cream, which was just as tasty and lovely as our mains. To make our evening more delightful, the Maitre'D from Estonia 🇪🇪 even took Jayne's wine off our bill. Venturing from the tourist area into the hotel itself, the hotel was just as opulent as we had imagined, especially in the public areas on the hotel side of the aquarium through to the foyer and reception areas.
    Soon, it was time to catch the monorail 🚝 back to the mainland, jumping off halfway at Nakheel Mall for a quick browse, before getting back on the monorail and catching a tram; as we had kept our tram ticket from earlier, we only paid 1/2 price back to Jumeirah Beach Walk.
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  • A Day of Reflection......noitcelfeR

    13. maaliskuuta, Yhdistyneet Arabiemiirikunnat ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Relaxing day today by the pool, well until 4:00pm when we are kicked out for a private party. It's not really a problem as we lose the sun about 3:30pm, whereas all the three other pools NOT belonging to our hotel are still basking in glorious sunshine for a good couple of hours later.
    After our last supper, we went for a little walk around the Dubai Marina; voted one of the 50 coolest places in the world by Time Out Magazine. The marina is a waterfront city, with its emerald-green waters framed by some of the tallest – not to mention some of the most architecturally impressive – residential towers in the world. Just next door is Jumeirah Beach Residence – a neighbourhood in its own right and the gateway from Dubai Marina to the beach where all day long, we see a flotilla of boats 🚢 sailing ⛵️ back and forth.
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  • Goodbye - Dubai

    14. maaliskuuta, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 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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