Sorry Readers, we missed another week last week, just a whirlwind of family, which has been lovely. We have not spent this long in Pocklington since we left for our respective Universities.
This week we have a bit more to talk about:
Rog celebrated a birthday all week, starting with an meal out a week early, and involved lots of cake.
We pack-up the AirBnB and stashed all our stuff back in our parent’s garage and loft space.
We know we will not get any sympathy, but we have also had to deal with the hassle of “paper” work to enable international travel, our third version of flights to Gran Canaria actually happened, (but until we got on the flight I was still awaiting a fourth cancellation)!
The “paper’ work included:
UK Travel Covid Passes – easy
Spanish Health forms – can only be completed online, no more that 48 hrs before travel, and they were a bit of a pain!
Online check-in – should be easy, but thanks to the Tui computer system we could not manage it!
Travel Insurance and Car Hire excess insurance. (Unlike most people, Rog actually reads the Policies !!!).
We had not flown for just less than two years, it felt like a long time compared with all the flights we used to regularly take from the Isle of Man. We were flying from Doncaster Airport (Robin Hood ? no idea why it is called that), there were only three flights departing on Saturday, so check-in was easy, there was no queue at security, and a half empty plane.
Landed in Gran Canaria, had the passport scanned on the electronic gates, then the passport stamped by a man, then our Spanish health form checked, then had to show a nurse our UK Covid passes, she was on the phone and didn’t seem that interested. Then the wait for the luggage, which eventually turned up. The Car hire next – we found the Budget desk, which was closed, thankfully it had a sign stapled to the door directing us to the small office in the Car hire car park. So all turned out OK. A short drive to the apartment in the dark. Met by the owner, a very nice apartment.
Travurple 