Our Holiday Destinations: London Holiday - Day 6 (The day we left London)

Today was the day we left London, went back home and wrapped up this holiday. Huhu.. I didn’t want to go home yet. Although to some extent its nice to be back home and back to normal and routine again. Its not very comfortable to live from a suitcase lol. But its even nicer to be away from normal, lives as the day came, went out and explore new places, did not have to worry about work and about traffic jam.

We woke up early and did the final packing of our luggages. We packed almost everything since last night so today we just need to pack the things we used for today and tidy up the apartment a little bit.

Its Christmas day today (25 Dec 2011). And our flight was not until much later, 10.30pm to be exact so we had one whole day to kill. We also knew there was no tubes, buses and even taxis today, unless we book in advance, which hubby did last night, with extra fee. Our taxi arrived around 11am so we checked out and said goodbye to the lady owner of our apartment and left.

London was deserted, not many cars on the road except for a few tourists walking about, at least in the city. Its Christmas day afterall.

We didn’t go straight to the airport but we went to Victoria station (supposed to use the tube – Gatwick Express - to get to the airport). We actually booked a return tickets by tube via Gatwick Express but since there was no tubes today, the management of the Gatwick Express provided the passengers with a coach (bus).

I think it took longer to reach the airport by coach but we got to see the sceneries and the every day lives of London. Our daughter took lots of pictures and videos and I managed to capture a few which I share below. I didn’t know where the coach passed through but the area was not as deserted as London though.

In the coach on our airport from Victoria Station

We reached Gatwick Airport around 12.30pm. Imagine how long we waited at the airport! And the airport was empty. I mean really empty, just look at the picture below. I was a bit worried since we didn’t have anything to eat but luckily M&S was opened and a few other small stores at the airport. So we bought some snacks and fruits as lunch.

What a long wait. We didn’t have much to do, airport was quiet, nothing to do or to look at except some magazines and our handphones and Samsung Galaxy. I was thinking of Singapore Changi Airport where there were lots to do, you didn’t realise how the time fly!

The gate opened around 7.30pm, we checked in and got our boarding pass. And the lady at the counter weighed our luggages wrongly, we almost got charged for extra weight! Hubby insisted she should weighed them again and waalaa... she was wrong! There was no way we had excess baggage, hubby had increase our allocated kg before we left for London the other day.

See how empty the airport was. Maybe because it was christmas day and there was not flight during the day

Killing time

Our lunch

I like this shrimp cocktail

Our daughter lunch - Spinach Pasta.

M&S Fruits, yummy.....

More wait at the airport before our flight. We walked around the airport to kill the time and hubby and I bought a pair of sunglasses each while waiting. Talk about impulse buying! And I didn’t even need a new one.

We finally queued for boarding pass, see how tired I looked!

Our luggages

Our sunglasses bought at Gatwick Airport

At last we board the plane and left London. Reached KL after 12 hours. Another long flight but it was ok this time because I fell asleep for 4hrs, maybe I got used to London time by now that I easily fell asleep, although I might not be able to get to sleep when I reached home. Anyway, we reached KL around 7pm Malaysia time, checked in at a small motel near LCCT and catch another flight back to Brunei the next day.