Exhaused flyers

Wow what an exhausting 24 hours to get to England. Firstly we landed up flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg (yes no one realised this until we were on the plane), then on to Doha where we were laid up for 6 hours waiting for our connecting flight.

All of us were absolutely shattered and the boys fell asleep on the chairs in the airport - most uncomfortable.

The most disgusting thing about this stop over though was the toilets, being an Arab country the toilets are so revolting, as everyone washes themselves with the shower hoses, so there is water everywhere on the floor and I am sure I don't need to go into more detail, needless to say, I was pretty much bursting by the time I got on the plane.

One good thing though was the boys bought themselves a camera each with the pocket money in the duty free and boy oh boy have they been snapping away - its great, with 3 camera's now, we are guaranteed to get some good shots.

When we finally arrived at Heathrow and picked up our rental car, we were please to discover we had been upgraded to a bigger car (thank goodness as our luggage only just fits.)

As we are driving along, Rob was playing with all the switches and buttons and suddenly my arse starts tingling and I realise my seat is starting to cook - Rob of course by this stage is in stitches laughing as he has switched on the seat warmers.

Finally we made it through to Blackheath (next to Greenwich) to Martin and Ann Marie's place well after 10pm, it is really strange that with it getting dark so late here, really messes with your time clock.

Martin and Ann Marie have a stunning home with 3 bedrooms so we all had our own rooms, they are 10mins from the station so it was all so convenient for getting into London.

We have manged to get a pre-paid sim card and for 5pounds we get 1 months free unlimited Internet access, what a bonus, this allows us to update our blogs each night.

So the last 2 days we spent going into London and doing the Tourist thing along with all 1 million other tourists, but more about that in my next blog.

This morning we left Blackheath and made our way through Cambridge to Bedford where we are staying for a week on a house boat in the Priory Marina. This will be our base to go exploring some more.