15 August

Hong Kong - London

Another early start as we were on a 7:30 am flight to London. The flight was pretty uneventful, and so was getting from Heathrow to our hotel – where Mum found that she didn’t have her wallet any more. (Last seen buying a ticket at Heathrow terminal 4 tube station.) Naturally this triggered a number of phone calls to Heathrow lost property, the bank back home, insurance company, and after about 3 hours we decided nothing more could be done so we went to find someplace to get dinner. On the way I started feeling really dizzy, sat down for a while but that didn’t seem to help, decided to try to walk a bit further and ended up just giving in and lying on the ground inside Victoria Station. Some other people passing by came to help, called the paramedics who came and checked me (blood pressure, blood sugars etc.) and couldn’t determine anything so we went to the hospital. 4 hours later after more tests, having something to eat, and feeling like we were being ignored a lot of the time, I was feeling much steadier and so we got a taxi back to the hotel. The fare was 10 pounds, and we only had 7 pounds in cash due to the aforementioned loss of wallet, and me collapsing before we could get to a money machine. Thankfully the taxi driver took pity on us. So most of the day had been relying on the kindness of strangers. It is good to know there is still some humanity left in the world.