Another overcast day as we walk to the station to catch the euro rail to Brussels, the trip is smooth and enjoyable with the train hitting 300 Klm / hour just before entering the tunnel, but for the most part the train sticks to 275 Klm. The French countryside glides by with farmers gathering hay for the coming winter, it isn’t long before we are crossing into Belgium and on to Brussels. Arriving at 2:30 pm we have heaps of time to do some basic shopping before retiring for the day, with 4 days here it will be nice not to be dragging my bag around.   Posted with Blogsy

12:30 am and I am bolted out of bed by a sound no traveller want to hear. No it isn’t a drunk Irishman trying to get into your room and refusing to believe he has the wrong room, that’s another story, no it is the fire alarm…. I stick my head out into the hall to see people hurrying towards the stairs, we are on the second floor so not far down, I grab my room key, wallet and phone and join the people hurrying out. Down 2 flights of stairs and out into the misty cool wet embrace of the London morning. People are all gathering on the corner…

Another day and the day is overcast and cool, but no rain is forecast until late afternoon. We head out for Hyde park and we find ourselves in the middle of the international triathlon, we head to the Albert memorial and then back to Hyde park corner, a long but enjoyable walk. Next we head down constitution hill and stop in to see the raf memorial, it may have taken 80 years but the memorial is very fitting and well over due. 12:00 finds us arriving for the end of the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace, as usual the crowds are packed in. Next we walked through James…

A cloudy day greets us as we head for the tube, it is made quickly apparent that 8:30 am is not the time to try and get on the central line as train after train of sardine packed workers travel by, but by 9:08 the trains are much lighter and we easily catch a train to St Paul’s. After a quick look around the cathedral it is a short stroll over the millennium bridge to the globe theatre, the sun is starting to shine but the wind is still cool. We make our way down the river and over London bridge to monument station. A short ride finds us at…

5:15 am and I am up and on the way to the airport, 9:00 am flight to Sydney then a 2:25pm flight to London via Hong Kong. Flights to Sydney is smooth the virgin rep checking in our bags gives us a transfer to get to the Sydney international but virgin has there own bus that goes from gate 46, unfortunately you can’t get your checked bags thought the security scanner to get to gate 46 without giving up all of your banned items. Had to use the transfer on the T bus which ended up okay. Flight to Hong Kong started badly the seats that I had allocated on…