14/15-Apr-2006

Today is the last day of our itinerary.  It was raining when woke up.  Fortunately, the weather change better after we'd finished the breakfast.

After breakfast, we returned to the room for pack up and countercheck the luaggage again.  The check-out time was extended to 12:00.

After check-out, we placed all our luggage at the hotel store room and walked around the Bayswater, which is the location of our hotel.  Although we stayed at the hotel for 10 nights already, we hadn't walked around the surrounding area.  There is a shopping arcade Whiteley located.  Besides, Bayswater is a lively place with many hotels and motels located.  You can see many people with their luggage walking around.

There are many different food shops among the street, i.e. Chinese food, Italian food, Pizza shop, of course with the most popular food, fish and chip.

The hotel shuttle bus arrived at 6:00 pm and we arrived Heathrow Airport at nearly 7:00 pm.  Actually, we should not be so hurry.  But after arranged for the VAT export (tax refund), the time was almost 8:15 pm.  Then we still had to check-in and passed through the immigration.  With the last flighting inside the airport, we were the last few to get on the plane.  The plane was departed at 10:30 in time and arrived Hong Kong at 5:10 pm 15-Apr.

The whole journey is enjoyable and relex. But the weather is quite cold and sometimes with drizzle.  It is disappointed that we cancelled the Paris itinerary because of the union strike.  Knowing that the strike was settled few days before, disgusting. Let's wait for next chance for travel to Paris and other Eurpoean countries/cities.