Welcome to the UK!?

The trip home after any holiday is always a long one, and today was no exception.

We start off by driving to the airport in our hire car. Whilst it's a brand spanking new fiat punto, there are 2 problems with it. 1) the steering wheel is off center, so to drive in a straight line you have to have the steering wheel positioned as if you were negotiating a hair pin turn. 2) the tyres are as wide as a rubber band. Seriously, the tyres screeched around every corner, and every straight bit of road for the 40 mile trip!! But it gets us to the airport in plenty of time.

Next we have to negotiate the queue of other tourists who are waiting to check in their baggage. There are 4 planes flying from the island today, and when you consider that the airport is tiny and not well equip it can only lead to disorganised chaos. Anyway, after about 1.5 hours in the queue waiting to check our baggage in, we then have a brief wait before we head into the departure lounge, and then shortly after that onto the plane.

The flight back was fine, and the food almost edible - and in little over 3 hours and 20 minutes we were touching down in Gatwick, where we gathered our cases and then headed off to find the coach that took us back to where we had parked the car.

Everything is going swell, up until where we get on to the m25 motorway, where suddenly the traffic comes to a crawl, and for a lot of the time a full stop. So our trip which should have taken 2 hours actually took a little over 4, and by the time we get home, have some grub we decide that really bed would be the best place to be - so thats what we do, and boy is it nice to have my pillows back!

Posted by Abi on the September 8, 2005 10:28 PM