TouchDown

An early departure from home to London Stansted which, regardless of what anyone says, is not in London.

I found a phone on one of the self serve tills and handed it in. I hope the owner retraced their steps snd was reunited with it.

I managed to book seats in different rows.. Oops. It worked out OK for me as I was on my own in row 1 with the door open during our 1 hour delay whilst the crew and then the captain asked for seat swap volunteers to distribute the weight more evenly.

We had a shared transfer.  We were on board the coach within 10 minutes of landing.  We waited another hour for others.  I have no idea what the hold up was.  I think the driver took 2.random passengers in the end and the ones he'd waited for had opted for a taxi.

We checked in and got a golf buggy transfer to our room.  The resort is terraced and MrRIU was tired and grumbling about the location of our room, blaming me as I'd expressed a preference for a quiet location.

We ate in the buffet restaurant and watch a male/female duo perform a covers set.  They had great voices and it was a treat to be sat outside at 10pm not feeling at all.cold.

We returned to our room to.unpack and discovered the AC wasn't working.  The hotel resolved it quote quickly and I awoke quite chilly.