Homeward Bound *update*

Very shortly after posting about our plans for coming home on Friday we found out, via the news, that BA had cancelled all flights from China for at least a month. Great!

After a few phone calls and with no certainty that any flights with other airlines would definitely happen we were offered seats on a plane that was already in the air and so would definitely be flying out of Beijing to return to its base. But the drawback was we then had 3 hours to pack! Also the flight left around midnight, transited in Dubai and would mean about 24 hours travelling time.

Emma was dead keen so we jumped on it.

As we didn’t know how long we’ll be away for it wasn’t easy to pack up but we did it and headed out into a cold Beijing night to start the journey.

The airport was really busy, almost completely silent and with absolutely everyone in masks. Very eerie. We had to complete some forms saying we felt okay and hadn’t been to Wuhan. Then we were scanned for our temperatures.

All good on the flights (other than it being completely exhausting). And now here we are. Home in the UK in a grey wet January day as we’d expect.

We got some really funny looks and plenty of questions at Heathrow when we told people where we were coming from.

We’re staying with Emma’s parents and have completely overtaken their house with children’s crap, mess and luggage. They’re so good for putting up with us… I mean putting us up!

Not sure what we’re doing re self quarantine for 14 days. Don’t think we’ll be able to go that long not seeing friends and family and have already seen Emma’s parents. Let’s see.