Don't Panic!

I thought 3.5 hours would be sufficient. I hadn't bargained however, for the crawling M20 and it taking 20 minutes to go one junction. After 50 minutes, we finally hit the M26 but with the M25 to come.

Unusually, the M25 was running freely but the M23 had the dreaded smart motorway roadworks. By this time, what had started out quite a chilled journey, was getting extremely stressful. 

At the car park, Catherine was pleading with the bus driver not to go, whilst I checked Nessa in. I was now confident we would make our flight in time, whilst Catherine's stress level was off the scale.

In the end, we made bag drop in good time but then had a shock when the board said flight delayed. Turned out, that was a different Bridgetown flight.

Panic over, we are now about to board.

Laters.

Totally Tropical

In 24 hours time, we should, hopefully, have just arrived in Barbados. Our flight leaves at 09:20 from Gatwick. It's an 8:40 flight time, so with a minus 4 hour time difference, we'll be arriving at 14:00. The ship sails at 21:30, so we'll have a bit of time to get acclimatised, before taking to the high seas. The next time we'll touch land, will be on Saturday, when we arrive in Philipsburg, St Maarten, the Dutch bit.

Friday night is the dress for dinner night. Catherine will look stunning I'm sure and I might even make an effort myself, though to be honest, I'm not that bothered about eating at the Captain's table. As we both have a birthday on board though, we might be able to wangle it. 😉

Hopefully I'll get some wifi to keep the blog ticking over but for now I'll leave you with a picture of Bridgetown, Barbados. That's your lot.

Library pic, Bridgetown, Barbados