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Month: July 2018

  • Day 1 – Gatwick – Bastia – Calvi

    Day 1 – 20180729 – Gatwick to Calvi/Calenzana

    Everyone seems to have slept ok.  By the time we are packed up it’s quite late and we are lucky that our train is delayed.  We reach Gatwick in plenty of time to wrap the package in plastic.  The package is my rucksack, tents and sticks.
    We planned to be < 15 KG each but Easyjet objects and the total is closer to 34, incurring a charge.
    At some point I will work out how to add photos to this post.
    Breakfast at Garfields.
    The usual Easyjet “Boarding” message which means “We are moving you from one area to another, but not onto the aircraft”.
    Once boarded Captain announces a delay, and our slot is moved half an hour or so back.
     
     

  • Day 0

    Day 0 – 20180728 – Churchdown-London

    Plan: leave at 1400, reality: leave after 6.

    We wake up reasonably in time and the kids are doing their usual TV/Xbox routine by 8am. Clesan out the animals, shopping.  Find out the fish pump has died, buy one (with warranty!) from the fish shop.

    Clean out the chickens, quails, feed the lizards.  Pidgy and Sheldon start fighting.  Great.  We decide to split them as we had a second cage ready for Lisa to put them while cleaning.

    Half an hour later we find out that Sheldon has died.  We bury him in front of the greenhouse.

    By the time we have done our final shop it’s almost 1800.  Drive to London, dinner at Pizza Express and straight to bed.  Emma grabs  her own room and Alex is on the bouncy bed in our room.