UK and the Baltic Days 29 and 30- Homeward Bound

Over the last few days of our cruise the weather has been slowly deteriorating. Our last day on the ship was a sea day as we made our way back to Copenhagen. The skies were grey and the seas lumpy and covered with white caps. We took it easy and organised our packing as our bags are supposed to be out by around 7pm tonight.

Not much was going on outside our cabin window. Early in the afternoon we slowly passed a fully laden tanker on the same course as us.

Its captain must have had its pedal to the metal as the seas were crashing over its bows and streaming off its deck through the scuppers.

We also passed a number of giant wind farms set out in the ocean.

Around 8pm this evening, we sailed under a massive bridge which our researches suggest is the Øresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund Strait between Sweden and Denmark. The bridge runs nearly 8 kilometres from the Swedish coast to the artificial island in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by the 4-kilometre Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager. So now you know.

We docked in Copenhagen during the night. Up at 5 am on our last day and by 6:30 am we were on a bus to the Copenhagen Airport. Security here was very thorough and the queues were massive. Around midday we boarded our Singapore Airlines flight and started the long flight home. The aircraft was lovely, the food was great and the crew were excellent. 

Only downside was that we were next to a family with three children, one of whom was around 10 months and who screamed for most of the flight at a pitch that was at pain threshold. We felt sorry for the parents who really struggled hard all night trying to keep the little tot happy.

After a four hour layover in Singapore we boarded our flight to Melbourne grateful that the noisy family was not on our flight only to find another family behind us with a child who had also mastered the art of pain threshold screaming. Still I think exhaustion finally took either me or the kid out and I arrived into Melbourne in fairly good nick. I have to give Singapore Airlines a huge tick for being a really great airline. Their staff are really outstanding.

It was a fabulous trip but it is great to be home.