Travelling to Lanzarote.
An early start at 5:30. Managed to get up after a night of not much sleep. Neil and Ian had been to watch Supergrass and Neil had trouble getting back to Bishop’s Waltham. Indeed, he did not get back until gone 3:00 am.
Made breakfast and had a shower, then last minutes packing and checking.
Luckily and very pleasantly Pam had offered to take us to the station, which she did. So, we were in plenty of time to catch our 7:39 train to Birmingham International so that we could check into the airport. We arrived at about 8:30 and were happily surprised to find a shuttle service to the airport. As soon as we got off the shuttle there was Jet2.com check-in. Very few people were around, so we were checked in by 9:00. Off to departures and I made a mess of the security procedure. I was fin, I had remembered to remove my belt and anything metal. Unfortunately, I was not so thorough with my hand luggage and it had to be checked and rechecked a few times as I had not removed small bottles of hand gel and hand cream. Thus, a lesson learnt for the future.
So far, everything had gone really well, only a three-hour wait for our plane. Well, that was until we heard that our flight had been delayed, because of a French air controllers strike. So, we ended up waiting for about four hours.
There flight itself was fine, a little crowded and not much legroom and full of Jet2 holidaymakers, but the staff were friendly and very helpful and pleasant. Jet 2 was a short-haul service has much to recommend it. Arrived at Lanzarote airport and went to get our shuttle. No luck there! We just had to get a taxi.
We arrived about 6:45 and registration was fast and a kindly porter took our cases and showed us where we would be staying. We have a family apartment confusion of a lounge with a small kitchen area, a bathroom with two showers and a bath and a bedroom. All very clean and comfortable.
We were in plenty of time for dinner and I probably, in spite of all good intentions are far too much. There was a great selection of good and very good German wheat beer. I had two, so in the end, felt very full and rather squiffy!!!! Of to bed!
