Around Europe in six days

I finally got home at 2:30 GMT after setting off at about 5:30 CET, a whole 22 hours later and its fair to say that I am some what short of energy! In that time we managed to pass through 10 countries (thanks TomTom and Dicky) and cover over 4500 Kilometers (that's 2800 miles for all the imperialists).

Today I managed to clock up my 11th country as I passed over the border between England and Scotland, adding a further 230 miles to the total journey.

Anyway, thank you all for a great weekend.

Home, at last

Well, I'm back. Had a fairly uneventful flight, two movies & lots of sleep. Just waiting for my bags (scooted past all the queues with my APEC card so I'm the only one through). Now all I've got to do is clear customs, find my taxi, and head home for a shower before going to work.

Can't wait to look through all the other photos. I'm sure there'll be some funny shots in there.

So that's all from me. This fantastic weekend has come to an end, and now it's back to reality. Thanks to everyone involved for making it so much fun. Cheers!

Photos anyone?

I've started to upload the 1600+ photos that were taken over our weekend break. As there are so many I'm just going to post them all, rather than worrying about adding the "out of focus" stickers.

You can find them at http://picasaweb.google.com/idxxphotos. If you would like any of them in their original full size resolution then just ask.

And if you would like any removing, make your request and we can all take a vote! ;-)

Just one more flight

And I'm off! The "Queenstown" aka tail number:ZK-SUI is my ship tonight, setting sail for the sunny shores of Auckland, New Zealand. I'm looking forward to a good sleep on the way. My seat is about a million times better than the last one. Not looking forward to work in the morning ;-)

See you in about 12 hours for what should be the final post (of my end) of the trip!

Back in LA

Well I've arrived safely, to the very busy and very hot LAX. Slightly stiff, tired (from only brief bursts of sleep) but feeling very happy for myself that I've been upgraded to Business for the flight home :-) Could have hugged the flight attendant in the Air New Zealand Lounge. I've now got two and 1/2 hours to kill before boarding. Almost three and 1/2 hours before takeoff. What to do...

I might have to go and buy another NZ->US plug adaptor for my laptop so I can use that instead of this public terminal in the lounge. Then I can play with some of the photos that I still have yet to get off the camera.

Very glad to hear that all the lads have arrived home safely, having made the ferry. Hopefully Phil gets to share a nice breakfast with Karen before he has to head out to work in the morning! Dicky has no such worries, of course, being unemployed :-P

Home, sweet home...

...for me at least. Phil's just left my house for the very last bit of our roadtrip - the 80 mile drive back to Lancashire on his lonesome.

The journey from Dover, with me driving, took the best part of 4 hours due to fuelling, numerous overnight lane closures and a ten minute stop at Watford Gap for more Red Bull. I hope there are no more roadworks to be found over the M62/M66 to slow Phil's journey.