We made it all the way Home where I spent alot of rainy days together with mARTin in the TV-lounge, pausing in our Interneting only to buy a burger from Dannys Diner just around the corner. There was a long journey from Eskilstuna to Arlanda Airport, London, Hong Kong and finally Melbourne. We were at Arlanda six hours to early, that was a bit insane but it seemed like a good idea at the moment.
All we did there were having some food and made some calls. I had a big burger and Jenny some Swedish meatballs, but we were not too fuzzed about the food, all it did was fill our stomaches. As you can see on one picture in our Facebook-album, we have a blue duck called “The Hoff” after our talented favorite actor David Hasselhoff also known as Mitch Buchanan in Baywatch. He is going to do some guest appearances during our trip.
The flight, we can reveal, was too short. Jenny slept the three hours to London and then the next twelve hours to Hong Kong. There are lots of thoughts popping into my head as we travelled and experienced the airports. Firstly I wonder who actually does the trimming of the lawns at Heathrowe and by which time. It was really neat.
In London our flight was delayed but we had the luck to stumble upon Filip, a 23 year-old guy from Uppsala, Sweden. He got fired three months ago from his work as a handyman. Financial crisis. He woke up one day not that many weeks ago and decided that he didn’t want to remain in that country for now. New Zeeland and adventures await him.
One creepy thing is that the world seems more worried about the swine flu than Sweden. At Heathrowe, Asians were running around wearing mouth covers/filter. Believe it or not, but when we entered the airplane to Hong Kong, some in the staff wore these too and a big deal of the passengers. People were strung like bows. If someone coughed you could feel the silence creeping under your very skin.
After around 27 hours we arrived in Melbourne. Everything went fine, Jenny slept almost the whole way meanwhile I could not which us unusual for me. Most often I fall asleep like a tired baby when I travel. I got to see lots of movies, Top Model and CSI which was all kind of good. However til the last CSI episode both mine and Jennys screens froze. The cabin crew restarted them without success. I learned though that they use Linux as operating system.
The feeling of flying through low hanging clouds, feeling that sudden impact as the wheels touches the Australian ground, that is just unbeatable. We had this airport shuttle which picked us up and drove us to our hostel. A familiar face met me, Richard, a guy I really came to like during my first visit to Melbourne over seven months ago. He works at the hostel. The day before we went to Australia I e-mailed them to make a reservation and can you imagine that he remembered me?
In the evening we met up with my friend Jennifer after a few text messages, whom I met on Moretone Island in September last year along with mARTin and her friend Linda. We have really come to enjoy each others company and met several times, she took me and mARTin out on some expeditions, just went shopping or had lunch, we also got invited to a real Aussie house to see her sister and her family. It was so good to see her after all this time and both Jennys were excited about meeting each other. 
Lots of hugs
from Ken and Jenn
For more pictures please have a look at my Facebook-album.
by Ken
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