27 September 2024
(Friday) - Travelling Home
Hotel (Wyndham
Tashkent) to Airport (Coach) – 10 miles
Tashkent to Heathrow
Airport (Flight) – 4000 miles
Heathrow airport to
Home – 80 miles
Having
got to bed at one o’clock last night I’d set the alarm for six am. We had an early
brekkie and had to be on our way promptly as the local roads were being closed
as the Uzbek President was visiting.
We piled onto the coach and went to the airport where
we said goodbye to our guide Fax… and with him gone we were no longer a group.
For ten days we’d worked together and been to wonderful places together. We’d
had a really good group which had gelled well. But
with our guide gone we were on our own and became a load of individuals and
couples.
As we went through the airports
we would see others from our group and exchange pleasantries, but the holiday
was over.
We did the airport things. We checked in. We handed
over our luggage and got searched. We did passports. And we were only an hour
and a half late getting on the plane.
As we flew for six and a half hours
I fiddled wit the i-pad
thingy the airline provided on the headrest of the seat in front of me. I
watched a film. “Chickenhare
and the Hamster of Darkness” was one of those films that was so
dreadful that it was excellent. And with that watched I played 2048; a surprisingly engrossing game.
And eventually we touched down. Luggage collected,
taxi home found and we were home sixteen hours after
we’d left the hotel this morning,
“My Boy TM” and Cheryl brought Morgan and Bailey home, “er indoors TM” got
KFC for dinner…