Noooo, I don’t wanna gooooo! Anyhow, onwards and upwards! I start the day as all good days start. Leap in the jacuzzi bath again to make the most of it, as I don’t know when my next bath will be. I doubt another jacuzzi one until we get back and see Kiki & Punkle! That should def be a kids TV show!
Once packed (we have that down to a tea!), we go grab our free breakfast. Leon chooses more noodles, and I have another egg toast sandwich thing. I discard the jam! We are sat with 4 oriental people, a family of Mum, Dad and 2 grown up daughters. One of the daughters turns to me and says beaming, ‘ where are you from?’
I explain we are from England, and she says she is from Korea. North or South, I say. This is apparently a stupid question and they giggle and shudder at the idea of North Korea. The family is so lovely and adorable, trying to teach Leon to use the chopsticks better and we chat about the tour we went in yesterday and our journey itinerary. They share wonderful photos of Hawaii with us! These guys take photography seriously! One of the daughters was a news presenter before having her baby! We exchange Instagram follows and they go upstairs to feed the baby. Leon and I look at each other in wonder! Korea now has to be on the list of places to go! The people we are meeting are revolutionising the way we perceive other ‘dangerous’ countries. I have found a lot of people in the UK that knew our travel plans (including Leon) expressed some varying degree of worry; the dangers of traveling and foreign countries. Don’t believe the hype people! Most places are completely different to how they are displayed by the media. Most other countries’ civilians just want the same as most of the UK civilians: peace, understanding, and to be taken an interest in. Over and out! Flight 6 of this journey: Singapore, here we come!
I will sign off with a photo of this freshly removed pearl: the death of an oyster for a piece of cultivated limestone. It felt a bit barbaric really, but hey. Pretty and pointless! In Majorca, they make them by machine instead, and I think that makes more sense, as it is such a long and laborious process to implant an oyster and only 10% make a perfect pearl!
