Day 17 Au Revoir London

 The next morning Harry was worse and we faced the dilemma of do we rebook our tickets and delay our departure in the hope Harry recovers in the coming days? Or do we set off this evening and manage him with panadol and medicines?

In my medicine kit I had a course of antibiotics for occasions such as this. Harry commenced this along with panadol for his fever and phenergen for nausea. We were meant to check out of the hotel at 11am and the plan was head over to the terminal until we could check in late afternoon in the hope we could get seats on the flight. But that was assuming we were all well.

I had planned to travel into Kensington for a last wander around and say goodbye to my favourite places but alas that was all cancelled as we had to pack, manage Harry and make all sorts of contingencies.

Ben made the decision to keep rolling our check out and Maddie and I headed over with most of the luggage mid afternoon. It took a couple of trips to manage the bags etc and Ben kept the essentials for him and Harry in case needed to stay on and Maddie & I could try to catch a flight if there were seats available.

Harry & Ben joined us at check at opening time. The medications had started to take effect but he really felt awful. Luckily we were given boarding passes to SIN and would have to ask ( beg and plead they meant) in SIN if there were any ( please please fingers crossed, lots of desperate smiles and compliments for the staff who assign seats) seats for the onward sector to SYD.

First things first so we went through immigration, security etc etc and found a place to sit and charge phones. Eventually we were on the flight separated into 2 and 2- Ben & me together and then Maddie & Harry. Harry coughed and looked awful the whole flight but at least we were on the way home.

I was soooooo sad to leave London.

SIN was a potential problem. We didn’t have seats for SYD and given the “flu from China” was starting to make news around the world, we would have to give Harry panadol regularly so his temperature wasn’t an issue during the transit.

But we made it on to the SIN/SYD flight and we were homeward bound. Maddie said Harry coughed the whole flight and looks back on it with horror.

For some reason one crew member wasn’t particularly helpful- one side of her cabin ( including Ben & platinum frequent flyers) didn’t get breakfast. She just skipped them and was a bit snippy with me when I tried to find my way through the galley to get to the kids. Hopefully through the COVID standdowns she has contemplated her role in the airline and how lucky she actually was. It did leave a bad taste in my mouth and I let her mar what should have been a pleasant flight.

So we were back in Oz, pets to hug and washing to wash. What a fantastic time we had.