Making our way

After having sold the flat, we have literally been living out of our suitcases for the past four weeks. We're now finally making our way to Perth. Last UK destination was Liverpool to see the in-laws. So now begins our epic journey from Liverpool to Perth with a 2 hr train journey from Liverpool Lime St to London Euston. My folks will be meeting me at Euston train station to see me and Chris off, so a quick stop there, followed by trying to navigate the tube system to Victoria station. Lucky Euston to Victoria are both on the same Victoria line, or else it would be a bit of a nightmare.

Then hopping onto the Gatwick Express to the north terminal. I've never really found Gatwick easy to get to, so this will be interesting.

From there, we'll be flying with Emirates to Dubai (6.5 hrs flight), with a 3 hr stop over, and then another 10 hrs. So we'll finally arrive in Perth on Tuesday morning, after travelling for 2 days.


I'm actually writing this blog on a Virgin train at the moment, as we're making our way from Liverpool to London. So, we (Chris is sitting opposite me at the moment) have just spotted the trolley lady coming along with food and drinks. Just to put this in context, we usually travel economy when we do go on the trains.
In this particular case, as Chris is a bit of a snob and also for reasons of security - we have our life belongings on on us - we have ended up travelling first class. So we travelled up on fist class on the way up to Liverpool (yesterday - which was a Saturday), and also first class today going back down to London.


Typically on first class carriages, they offer you free food and drinks. So, yesterday, we saved our stomachs for the food and drink in our first class carriage, only to be offered cold coffee by a very disgruntled looking trolley man. Obviously, being still hungry and thirsty, we decided to get some more food and drink from the shop, only to notice that other first class passengers were getting coffees, crisps and biscuits -  per person!


So, now we see the trolley lady coming along, we're ready to grab everything on offer off the trolley (even though we've both just had a massive roast lunch..).