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So todays activities have consisted of handing over the old house (successful – no bills), moving to a temporary hotel at Heathrow (Radisson Edwardian – highly recommended and the kids are in a different room which means a night of peace), saying farewell to parents and now the packing reorganisation will begin.

Best thing about today however is the view from our rooms. They look directly onto the Heathrow Golden Arches, which incidentally we enjoyed a fine dining experience in at lunchtime. The staff were shocked that I asked for salad instead of fries…evidently an uncommon request and they were out of stock…forced to eat a Big Mac and fries yet again.

So tomorrow the main journey begins and the real fun starts. I’ll keep you all posted…

So, I venture into unchartered media territory safe in the knowledge that I am not alone and that Jim is also not familiar with this internet blogging fascination.

I have now commenced the epic journey to Australia and have little to comment on other than that the Ramada Encore in Chatham isn’t designed for families and that trying to get your children asleep in the same room as you at 7pm is not conducive to watching television, nor having any sort of quality time on Valentines night with one’s wife.  Also note that every where gets booked up on the 14th Feb for dinner so he who fails to plan treats his wife to a luxury golden arches experience, backed up with the classic line of “order whatever you want off the menu…it’s my treat!” Finally, the Ramada Encore does not have baths as it is aimed at businessmen and the like…evidently they have realised that a soak in one’s own dirty water is not good for you or perhaps no-one just gave them the brief “don’t drink the water”.

Tomorrow I bid farewell to Chatham-sur-le-Medway and move to Heathrow for a final night of rest (thank god we have interconnecting rooms so that the kids will not prevent me from my panic packing).  I will endeavour to insert a picture from our stopover in Hong Kong, perhaps one of me and Mickey Mouse, but I can assure all of you that I will not be having any fun at all as I will have commenced my mental preparations for site.

I shall leave it at that for now and will return to my room in the hope that the children have fallen asleep. Otherwise it will be a long night ahead without a minibar in the room to accompany me.

Adios,

Roy