Thursday, 7 August 2008

Back home

I got up at 7am on my last morning on Phi Phi as I had to get the morning ferry back to Phuket. I headed down to the dock and boarded the ferry, climbed on to the top deck, put my bag on the floor under my head and promptly went to sleep. I woke up about five minutes away from Phuket. Which was nice. I disembarked and found a bike taxi driver, haggled the price to the airport to 300 Baht and hopped on the back. Around an hour later we got to the airport (it's a long way) and I grabbed a burger (first one in weeks) and then sat on a chair for about five and a half hours waiting for check in to open. Once I'd checked in aI headed through to the gate and spent another hour or so waiting to board my plane to KL.

After a couple of hours on the plane we landed at KL and I limped through the airport to my next gate, where I had a couple of hours wait until I could board my flight back to Heathrow. Once on board the plane (my first 747) I grabbed some sleep when I could, watched a load of movies and ate the average airline food.

Landing in Heathrow was weird, as I was officially home.

And that's it. Over. Until next time anyway.

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