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Friday 29th January
We woke up at the YHA, I was pleased to have had a good nights sleep with a lovely air-conned room. We had the long task of emptying all our stuff out of the van before we could return it so were up and down in the lifts sorting it all out until it was back as we found it (minus roof vents). We then decided to go for a wonder around town and get some nice lunch to treat ourselves before returning the campervan. I also needed to pick up stamps for postcards (international ones you can only get at the post office itself) and we ourselves stopping for lunch and had a glass of wine at Jamie's Italian which was lovely. While we were there we also were given advice by the waitress on a place we could get our hair done (highlight roots needed doing) for the following day.
By the time we'd finished it was ten to 3 we were in a rush to walk back up to the hostel to get the campervan and return it to the depot which closed at 4. Lots of manic driving later and we arrived at 4 on the dot wondering how the whole thing would be dealt with. It seemed to go ok as the place we returned it to was an intermediary company who said that the van would have an assessment and we would be notified of the cost for the damage. We left and walked 10 minutes to the train station which was directed down some very dodgy back street, picked up a 'Go' card which you can load money onto - similar to the opal in Sydney, and got on the rain back to the centre. Lisa received a snotty email on our way back from someone at travel wheels suggesting we didn't tell them we were returning the van early which was stupid because we had phoned them on 3 separate occasions over the last week - including on the day to let them know. Lisa phoned them to correct them on this and then sent a snotty email back!
We made it back to the city centre and walked back up to the hostel, showered and later on attempted to play cranium with a guy from Denmark called Jacob however realised you need at least 4 people so gave up and played bulls*** before I left them and went up to bed earlier.
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