The final final countdown!

Thankyou Rodney, for driving us, once again, to start our adventure. We're sitting with a red wine, a cider and a Bloody Mary... it's too late to worry what's packed and what isn't, we're on our way. The big bags will meet us in London...I'm so glad I decided to put all the Singapore things into my backpack. I' m so excited!!!
It still feels unreal, even though I've done it before. There was some query over my middle name being on my ticket but not on my passport. I had a horrible flash of deja vu from 2017, when I'm sure the same thing happened. I remember a rather officious woman saying "Hmph! And where did ' Caroline' come from?" I was so tempted to say "my paternal grandmother". The woman today was very nice, but a bit perturbed that I wasn't following the rules, I was mentally kicking myself, hard, that I hadn't checked everything carefully enough to pick up the mistake. In the end being pleasant, middle aged and having the air of a primary school teacher goes a long way towards smoothing things over. I'll just have to rely on that for five more flights.Read more