Thursday 23/4/2015 Home again!

Our final P and O breakfast was an early one, partly because it was hard to sleep, and partly because we had to vacate the cabin by 8 a.m. Even on this last morning we met and sat with a couple we had never seen before.  They had also been right round the world.  Perhaps they hadn't done much mixing,  They told us about their junior suite, their jaccuzzi, their two double beds (?), their own iron and ironing board,  their chauffeur driven Merc to take them home, and how much it had cost. All in the best possible taste.   I was thinking that there's no room service on the last morning, so I suspect this might have been their first communal meal, and a bit of a struggle!

We went outside for our coffee and surprisingly met another couple, again we'd not met before.  This was painless though, they were very pleasant to chat to,  We were off the ship and reunited with our 4 large chock full suitcases by 9 a.m. That process was all executed with military precision, and went quite unbelievably smoothly. No hold ups at customs and no immigration procedures because they'd been done on board throughout the day on 21st deck by deck.  Rumours had it that some people had actually brought 20+ suitcases.  Maybe they had to bring enough clothes to avoid the laundrette or laundry facilities.  We have also learned that some people use cruise ships to emigrate, as there's no extra charge for carrying a lot of suitcases, and there's storage in the lower decks for baggage that won't fit under the cabin beds.

Anyway we were soon out of the grand shed, and on our coach before 9:30 a.m and on the way to the M6 where we were picked up by our own chauffeuse Talene around 3 p.m. and taken home in time for tea.

So now I will start to put all of the pictures in here a day at a time, and also get a little presentation together for Poppy's year 2 class, who have coincidentally just finished a project on the oceans of the world. This will help keep everything going a little bit longer.

But the adventure is over, although I will do as much as I can to keep all the memories alive.

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