Wow that was a long trip

We did it fam, 35 hours of transit and we finally got to London. For anyone wanting to travel direct to London I would highly recommend staying over somewhere for a day or 2 in the middle, two 12 hour flights back to back kinda sucks.

We arrived in Shanghai at about 11am NZ time, its not the easiest airport to navigate, but once we found our bearings we were sweet. The airport is fairly massive, but fortunately we were dropped off at the terminal we needed to fly out from. We had like 3 hrs to spare so we grabbed one of those 1 hr hotel rooms (we were offered a 'massage' but we politely declined). Had a shower and a micronap and by then it was almost time for us to fly out.

First time for us flying with Virgin Atlantic and I have got to say, WOW that service is outstanding, that was quite possibly the best flight that I have been on. The cabin crew was amazing (Amber was not feeling well and they were super helpful and understanding). Special mention to Sam, you da man Sam.

Once we finally arrived at Heathrow we quickly grabbed a UK sim card, jumped on the tube which we stopped at just around the corner from our hotel. We then went out to a quaint little Thai place for dinner and then back to the hotel for sleep (by this time we were full on zombies).

Quite the experience so far, and we haven't even hit day 1!