Away 3

After application of care and patience, Clare's tum is now in a fit state to travel (we hope), and we'll be going with it.

Here we are again at Heathrow, ready to leave on the third and final leg of our grand tour. This time it's a full lap of the world - travelling Eastward like Phileas Fogg so we get July 6/7 twice!

We only booked on Wednesday, and here we are on Friday, so Thursday was busy and I got the most stressy I have in ages. When you're going away for a month or more, there are some things where it makes a lot of difference whether you've packed them or not - adding up to a lot of inconvenience saved/suffered over the time.

The outline of leg 3 is as follows:

9-10 Jun - Singapore
11-17 - Phuket, Thailand
18 - Singapore (transit only)
19-21 - Sydney, Australia
22-28 - Hamilton Island, Australia
28 - Sydney (transit only)
29 Jun-5 Jul - Fiji
6 Jul - Auckland, New Zealand (transit only)
6 (AGAIN!!!) - 11 Jul - Hawaii, USA
12-14 - San Francisco
15-18 - New York
19-25 - Antigua
26 Jul - Home

As you can see, this is the "leisure leg" (well, more than the others). It was provisionally titled "Beaches of the World" and, while there's so many fabulous beaches we couldn't see them all, I feel like we're giving it a good stab. We'll make a point to hit famous Bondi Beach while we're in Sydney.

At one time this leg was going to include more places I've been before, but now it's only big cities (Sydney, SF, NY).

There's no problems with visas this time, all on arrival except the online Aussie ones we got yesterday and the U.S. ESTAs we have left from leg 1.

Here we go!