We arrived safely in London yesterday afternoon - met by Ray's brother-in-law, John. Had our first taste of a motorway traffic jam!
Looking forward to catching up and spending the weekend with Ray's sister, Di, and her family in Dudley, Birmingham.
Weather was a pleasant 15deg Celsius on arrival, but this morning is very chilly and only expecting to be around 10degC max. for the next few days, a bit of a change after experiencing 28degC with high humidity on our last night in Hong Kong.
We want to thank Marg's cousins, Helen and Janice and their husbands Nick and Merv for the fantastic hospitality they showed us in Hong Kong. Staying at Nick and Helen's was so much more inviting than a hotel room, enjoying breakfast each morning with the family. We packed a lot into the 4 days we spent with them and felt we had the full Hong Kong tourist experience - junk ride, yum cha, Peking duck dinner, tram ride up to Victoria Peak, cable car to the giant Buddha with vegetarian lunch at the Po Lin monastery, noodles at a street stall and all the markets:- clothes (Tahnee & Marli would like to thank Aunty Janice for helping them with the haggling), wet market with live fish and crabs; flower, goldfish & bird markets (although we didn't spend a lot of time at the last 2 as the girls were quite upset to see the goldfish and birds in tiny cages and bags. Marg even got to go out with Helen & Janice for a massage one evening while the guys caught up for a drink at the Football club. We spent the last evening having an Aussie BBQ on the roof top of Janice & Merv's villa overlooking the water.