Well now, what can you say about the Airbus 380 except wow. Quantas staff were fab and very attentive and the flight to Singapore was brilliant (except for the full cup of apple juice that was spilt over Jen's lap - Jen blamed Calum, Calum blamed Jen!).
As promised by the pilot, we did make up some of the lost time, arriving in Singapore 8.25am local time (1.25am UK time). We were told the flight to Perth had been delayed to 9.15am from 9.05am to allow us time to change planes. That sounds good, except we had over a hundred people changing from the A380 to the Perth bound A330. All those people - including a large girls hockey team who couldn't move any slower if you strapped them to their hockey sticks and nailed them together - had to clear security at Singapore.
Despite being armed to the teeth, the security staff were friendly. We all had to remove our shoes to go through the scanner, and then were searched .To be honest, one look at the sidearms on display and we would have removed all our clothes if asked! Anyway after the searching and the swabbing for drugs, explosives etc we boarded the Airbus A330. By now it was 9.25am so running late again! Take off was at 9.35am.
Normally this is quite a big aircraft but after being on the A380 it was like getting onto a WWII troop transporter.
The flight was good. Calum slept the whole way, Jen dried out (still smelt of apples) and also got some sleep and even Les managed to get an hour or so's kip.
Finally we arrived in Perth 2.27pm. Picked up our luggage after Jen threw away the bananas she had illegally imported into Australia (read rules on importing foods products to Australia).
AVIS rentacar let us have a lovely big Toyota saloon (bigger car than we ordered but at no extra cost) and out into the pouring torrential rain we went!
A quick 30 minute drive to the hotel - should have been 20 minutes but as map reader, Jen thought Les could guess the directions rather than telling him the right route!
Into the hotel and into our room. We made it! Looking out of the window we saw two kookaburra's sitting on a balcony opposite - we have truly arrived!
Updates to follow x
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