In the true tradition of a ten year old writing his essay `What I did on my Holidays`, I suppose I should describe the flight. Actually, not bad. Departure from Gatwick was infinitely better than departure from the UK`s very own Third World airport - Terminal 3 Heathrow!!! Add to that the fact that we paid around 10% more for an upgrade to the Charter flight`s equivalent to 1st class and the whole trip was relatively painless - hats off to Thompson in fact. We were first in the queue at the check in, first on board the aircraft and a free glass of Kir Royale (dunno what that is but it meant a lot to Linda) before we even left the terminal. In ¨1st class¨you get 7 seats across the plane instead of 8 (OK, not a big deal), 4¨more leg room (now its starts to make a difference), a five course lunch (it actually was quite tasty), a personal DVD player pre-loaded with around two dozen films and shows), staff who actually asked you if you wanted to drink more (what can I say?); the whole 9 hours going by rather nicely in fact (and if you know me at all you`ll know how much I normally hate travelling).
By 9 o`clock local time we were by the pool bar sipping caipirihnas and watching the Atlantic breakers between the palm trees - so far so good!
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Well done David you'll get the hang of this travelling lark yet - either that or your brain has been frazzled to a numbed lump by the "thing" (I won't mention the word) that you've left behind. Relax and enjoy all the drinks that you can - even if you don't know what they are! Linda - if David doesn't know what's in a Kir Royale how is he coping with the caipirihnas? as long as you keep him off the straight aguardente (I think thats the Portuguese spelling) he should be OK. Your first mention of sunshine and palm trees - I am jealous already! Cheers
A slight amendment - you didn't mention sunshine I imagined it! I suppose my mind was swayed by the image of the pool bar, palm trees and Atlantic breakers - that plus the fact that Yahoo weather shows temperatures in the 80s and lots of sunshine symbols (lucky b*st*rds!!)
Hello Dave & Linda (& Andy!)
Not only did my first comment get lost - but my humble comments of this morning disappeared too.
Anyway - I bet you aren't sorry to be missing 60mph gusts on this lovely Sunday morning.
You promiced us a few words about drinks & poolside leisure - and I have counted 2 beverages so far (with Andy's H2O that makes 3)
have fun
Margaret
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