24th January 2016

Our last few days on Koh Tao seem a distant memory now  ..I miss the heat for sure but it's great to be home and see all the family.

Our journey, even though it was very long, went pretty well.  We left Koh Tao on the afternoon Seatran ferry to Koh Samui, then caught a taxi to Samui Airport.  

We had a slight delay with our flight to Bangkok but I entertained Simon by playing 'eye spy' which he truly enjoyed.    Our luggage was checked in all the way to Heathrow so that was good.  Thankfully we had not forgotten to put a change of clothes/warmish clothes into our carry on luggage as when we arrived in Vienna, and had to disembark for a couple of hours, it was minus 4 degrees  ...ONLY 39 degree temperature change.  

The last leg of our journey to London went pretty quickly, both Simon and I were in and out of consciousness and couldn't wait to collect our luggage and collect the hire car to go home.  Unfortunately we had to wait around in the freezing cold for a bus, then wait in a chilly car rental office for what seemed like forever.  All turned out well as even though we'd (Si) had booked the car ages ago, they hadn't got the right car, so we got a free upgrade  ..Peugeot 308 :-D

Finding it a little odd to see so much traffic, driving, frost everywhere, proper roads etc we made it home and sat down to a refreshing cuppa where we were greeted by Charles (bro in law) Jim, lovely old boy who regularly visits 'Rosies' my sisters Tea shop and reminds me so much of Dad and then a little later, my sisters, Rosie & Fiona, :-) 

Fi & Rosie

After unpacking, a few more cuppa's, we all went for a lovely walk to check out all the newish calves and later on, Simon played with his new drone