Portsdown Hill

GOOD NEWS: Had a text message telling me my luggage had been found!

BAD NEWS: They were delivering it to my house in one hour's time whether I was there or not. We'll leave it with a neighbour, they said.

They thought I was the strangest bloke on the planet when I insisted that they didn't do this... It appeared that in order to prevent this delivery, a huge strategic operation had to be thrown into place. Anyway, after a stressful morning of negotiations between them and Air France, they finally agreed to reschedule for tomorrow. My side of the argument was that the paperwork given to me clearly stated that they would call me once the luggage arrived to arrange delivery.

If you order a pen online, a courier will not leave it with a neighbour, but a suitcase with all your possessions? Sure, we'll just dump it with the first person we find. Why not just take it to the end of the street and leave it with the squatters.

Perhaps I'm just a bit too cynical....

Anyway, met up with Jodie's dad to chat about Beijing, as he's off out there this weekend, and spent 20 minutes enjoying this view en-route.