Travel to London

We have just done 23 hours from Sydney to London. It was a lot easier than expected. Kaira was a dream and slept most of the time. In fact I recommend having a baby with you when you travel (even if you need to borrow someone's). Everone is freindly and lots of people come and talk to you, you tend to get on planes first, and a lot of officials enable you to skip queues. Brilliant. In fact, when we arrived at Sydney, the customs queue I think would have taken close to an hour to get through. Andrea went and spoke to a customs officer (with Kaira - who burst into tears at that moment) and he let us through another door without even going through customs.

We are just killing time at Heathrow at the moment. We have 4 hours here so bought a drink each - £7 - $21!!

We are being picked up from the airport in Rome and have accomodation there organised for us. We are going to spend a few days there and then perhaps with a friend of Thomas Hansen's in Florence so we can practice our Italian. "Un caffe per favore!!"

We will head to Bari next week.