The Long Way Home

Iceland is technically Europe but since we’re landing on in the continent today in Bergerac, the second chapter begins here. Our last flight until flying back to other hemisphere from Athens! What a relief. Air travel is not what it used to be.

Lots of fun, Reyka-fuelled polaroids were taken at Nick’s place, a sample of which now serves as bookmark in a newly-acquired travel book. It put me over the limit for Ryanair’s 15kg baggage restrictions, but a bit of juggling saved a £100 (!) excess fee.

There’s a pharmacy in East Dulwich which has never heard of Giardia. Skip past it and go straight to the natural medicine place a few blocks down for some Probiotics, Chinese Milkweed, and Arsenic.

This Ryanair Boeing we’re on is very interesting. With yellow decor, we already feel like we’re in a life-raft. To generate income, we have so far been offered the following items for sale, in addition to food and drinks:

- Lotto tickets
- Duty-free goods
- Calling cards
- Smokeless cigarettes (to smoke on the plane)

Photos; A new bookmark; Our jovial London guide; I’m pretty sure this guy is Simon Pegg; We caught up with Raini and met AJ near the Lloyd’s building where AJ works, and had an Indian meal in an unusual underground restaurant; I WISH this was the carpark for Iceland.