As always seems to be the case one of the people in my dorm had an incredibly loud snore.  Nevertheless I persevered with my efforts to sleep and woke up at about 08:00 feeling much better.

I went for my shower and then spent the next two hours carefully tending to my sunburn.  By the time I had finished I no longer looked like the elephant man and was also able to open my mouth properly!

With today being the last of the trip, and reality just around the corner , I made a couple of phone calls to catch up on the news whilst I had been away.  Whilst in Azau I had been almost completely cut off from the outside world – and hot water!

Once again I fell out with the London Underground.  Having checked out of the youth hostel I headed for home.  Unfortunately, Chelsea were playing Portsmouth in a lunchtime kick-off.  Once again guess who became very unpopular with an entire carriage due to the size of his luggage?  I have to say that it is unlucky that my journey coincided with a load of supporters going to a football match, but there you go.

I was relieved to have disembarked at London Euston and had some lunch.  Before long I was sat on the train and heading back up north.  They long homeward journey was nearly complete.

Most people were complaining about the warm weather but for me this was nothing compared to Azau.  Eventually I arrived at Halewood, after connecting at Liverpool Lime Street.  After making the walk home form the train station real life started to appear in my life again.  Shopping for food, catching up with my post, emails, preparing for work.  I was beginning to wish I was back in Azau!

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