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There’s something about driving in the middle of the night, quite apart from the lack of traffic. It’s easier and more difficult at the same time. Easier as you don’t have to deal with jams and bonkers drivers, more difficult as it is harder to see (especially when your contact lenses flare). Anyway the new Tom Tom maps no longer show you in a field when go from the second Severn crossing to the M5.
My plan to check in three hours early (as before with EasyJet at Bristol) didn’t quite work. Turns out that no one from Easy arrives until 04:00. You can’t blame them really. Still a large cappuccino helped (picture 01). Anyway when I checked in, I was boarding group A again, which was nice. Up to the bar as everything was closed and a rather summery Magners (picture 02) to start the journey.
Flight left 10 minutes late but arrived 15 minutes early. I wonder how much recovery time is built into this schedules? Passport control was the problem. Half an hour to get through. Picture 05 shows the queue behind me. A guy who does the journey every two weeks, said that they hardly ever check passports, argh.
The resorthoppa transfer was delayed due to late a arriving flight from Newcastle. Probably not helped by the passport control queues. Great thanks to the Penarth knowing Geordies for their running commentaries on the coach.
After that it was downhill all the way. McDonalds, then cold beer ans papers by the pool. I’d forgotten how cold the pool could be. However when you have been awake since 00:30, it doesn’t half wake you up!! Using solar charger to save the world (picture 07).
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