Last Day and Home

Up at 6am, more sleep last night, and decide to look for flights to Malta as we have a week in May booked at the Porto Azzurro Hotel, half board, for only £50 each. The local airport, Leeds/Bradford, has only business class at £1141 each!! I'll keep looking. Search for the holiday checklists I found on google when going to Spain last year. Isn’t the interweb just wonderful. Last day of the course so have to pack and checkout. It’s a shame as there will be no lunch time break at the hotel today. Might leave my case here though and shop as I need a guide book to the UAE. Play Laura Marling whilst packing; especially like this track.

At breakfast a young woman looks straight through me; I look like her dad. On the plus side, young women are very approachable now, because I look like their dad. The very best look for a serial killer I suppose.

It’s raining again and very cold as I walk across to the office. No delegates yet so peace and quiet. I might try the internet via my Orange dongle. Blow me, it works! At lunchtime it stops raining and the sun is out so I walk to Waterstones and buy a guide to Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately, it’s for ex-pats hoping to settle there but it’s very comprehensive and the only one they have.

As it's the last day I finish the course at 4pm. The paper evaluations are very good and two of them say it's "the best course they've ever been on". That was nice.

Back to the hotel to write more blog before I collect my case and board the train, first class again with free wi fi, tea and snacks, for the ride back to York. Surrounded by people eating vegetable curry and drinking red wine. Lovely smells.

Arrive in York with half an hour to wait in the lounge for my next train but free wi fi eases the burden. Then on to Micklefield, where Jennie will collect me and drive me home. Jennie arrives in her Z3 sports car and I am surprised to discover that my newly acquired suitcase will NOT fit in the boot! I have to travel the 5 miles home on the front seat jammed under the suitcase, which only just fits in.

To bed. Tomorrow at 1.45pm I leave for Abu Dhabi.