Aileen.Marron

Well we’ve just done a longhaul flight…. Swollen ankles et all. Still had no more sleep and to top it off, we have missed our connection due to the delays in Paris (from the queueing up for shoe xrays!) So here I am in the airport blogging via email via my phone, hoping it’ll get through to my site. Planning to blog from everywhere and then add the piccies when I get home. Hope we get some good pictures! Just managed to get hold of Alvaro who was wondering why we didn’t get off our scheduled flight, he sounded releived that we were ok just delayed. Poor guy, now has to wait even longer for us :( Anyway, we’ve discovered its pretty hard to get a cup of coffee in the departures part of this airport, so I’m dabbling with a can of Coke (memories of being hooked on Coca-Cola flashing up!) but, really need the caffeine and sugar right now! Simons happythough, there is a smoking lounge :), poor Si, he hasn’t had a cigarette in nearly 24 hours :(

Considering we’d only had around 2hrs sleep we were wideawake on the way to the airport! Our flight was due out at 6am, so we made it to Ringway (that’s Manchester Airport for none-locals) by 4am. Naively we thought we’d have time in the airport for those last minute essentials like…. an English/Spanish phrase book LOL. But ofcourse, with all the crazy security measures in place these days we only just made it to the plane on time. The first flight toook us to Paris where we changed planes, again a huge queue and then running all the way for our connection with our shoes in one hand and our permitted ‘tiny bags’ in the other – sheer madness with the whole shoe X-ray malarky LOL. One flight down… 3 to go…