Saturday, 21 March 2015

That's all, folks!

We are now back home in Australia.  The holiday's over.  Below are some statistics:

Total length of holiday: nine weeks
Total number of blog posts: 64
Number of countries visited: nine
Number of cities/major towns visited: 15
Approximate distance travelled: 52,500 kilometres
Accommodation: 10 hotels, family accommodation, plus cruise ship
Number of times taken off/landed (in aircraft): 12
Coldest temperature: below zero in Finland
Warmest temperature: above 30 degrees Celsius in the Caribbean
Furthest north visited: southern Finland 
Furthest south visited: Brunei
Furthest east in Caribbean: Barbados
Closest point to South America: about 35 miles while on Aruba
Seas/Oceans visited: Irish Sea (Aberystwyth), Baltic Sea (Finland), Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and South China Sea (Brunei).
Islands visited: Great Britain, Suomenlinna, Aruba, Curaçao, Grenada, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts, St Maarten, and Borneo.
Airlines used: Royal Brunei, Finnair, and Virgin Atlantic

Other transport throughout holiday:  
UK: Taxi from Heathrow to hotel, London buses, London Underground, one silver seven-seater people mover, one Volvo XC60, and the zip line at Bethesda.  
Finland: Buses to and from airport, train to Turku from Helsinki and return, Ilkka's car in Turku, tram in Helsinki, and ferry to island of Suomenlinna.  
US: Taxis to and from airport and to and from cruise ship and between hotels, bus to and air boat at the Everglades, and push bikes hired.  
Caribbean: Cruise ship, bus, van, land drover, a 4 x 4, a small people mover at Harrison's Cave in Barbados, and the St Kitts Scenic Railway
Brunei: Taxi from airport, hotel shuttle to town, night market and airport, speed boat on Brunei River.

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