Made it!

We all gathered at "oh hell" o'clock on Friday morning and began our journey down under. I was rather smug to find that my suitcase was much lighter than the boys, although I may come to regret this at a later point.

Dr Iain, - we are now using Dr and Farmer to distinguish between the two when we're talking about them. I know that it's not really required in the blog as they are spelt differently but it will make more sense to the people we've met that are reading - anyway. Dr Iain spent some time tieing his kilt to his suitcase as to have 2 bags on the flight would have cost him an extra 75 pounds. I am typing up on my host family computer and have just realised that there's no pound sign.

Anyway eventually we were on our way. Glasgow to London passed uneventfully enough. Then it was the biggie a 10 hour flight to Hong Kong. I've managed to see more films on this trip that I have in the previous 6 months. Although with this comment I don't include the scary film festival I went to in the Glasgow Film Theatre as there were quite a few films on at that.

Also on these long haul flights they seem to try and take your mind off the time but constantly feeding you. 3 course meals, choc ices, mints, raisins, kit kats they all just kept coming.

At Hong Kong we had to leave the plane although we were travelling on to Melbourne on it. At this point we were beginning to wonder if we had left Glasgow at all or if it was all a strange hoax and they had just changed the signs. Anyway after the lady at the airport put a little tick on our boarding card we were allowed back on the plane