To Southampton

We had a mid morning flight out of Paris’ Orly Airport this morning as we flew over to the UK, to Southampton, ready for our Spanish Mediterranean Cruise tomorrow. We shared a Taxi with Ren and Willi, the other Aussies on our European Tour as they were headed for Spain today. We sure arrived at the Airport with plenty of time to spare before our flight. We flew to the UK on a Dash 8, so it was good to be able to see all the landscape and country borders as we flew out of France, across the North Sea and into the UK. Arriving at our Hotel here in Southampton at around 10:30 am, we found we were about 4 hours too early to check in, so, after storing our bags, we wandered around the shopping centres for that time, before finally getting settled in our room mid afternoon. The weather here is quite warm but the clouds are building up a tad at the moment. Hope the weather stays fine for our cruise.

We have indeed been fortunate to have had a wonderful time the past 6 weeks as we travelled, firstly around France, then on to Bucharest and the River Cruise from Bucharest to Amsterdam, then the European Adventure through Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland and back to Paris. We have enjoyed every town that we visited and everything that we have done and seen over that time. We look forward to the Ocean Cruise now as a time to unpack and relax and see some more Ports and places we haven’t been to before. Internet may be a bit of a problem on the Ship, so this may be the last ‘post’ until we get back to the UK. Time will tell. Take care everyone and thank you for taking the time to read of our travel adventures.

 Leaving France

 Over Southampton