You will no doubt be imagining us walking along the ancient paths of the Cinque Terre in Italy - WRONG. We are at Christy and Andy's in Seaford and happily have now been reunited with our luggage. (Our friends Kay and Barry McGaw recently travelled for almost 4 weeks with only handluggage and that is starting to seem like a smart move.) All had been going so smoothly until we were delayed in Hong Kong by a sick lady who had to be taken off the plane to hospital. The hour 's delay meant we missed our connection in Helsinki and when we finally got to Heathrow much later that night our cases were nowhere to be seen. It is clearly not an uncommon occurrence going by the mountain of left luggage and that was just terminal 1.
We spent a night in a pleasant hotel (not worth 314 pounds for the night, though - hope the travel insurance comes good on that one) but reminded ourselves that we were far better off than the cyclone victims in Burma or the earthquake victims in China. It was clear by Tuesady morning that we would not get our luggage that day and didn't think it wise to fly to a samll village in Italy with just a change of undies and a spare shirt and hope that the luggage would catch up with us. We finally got our cases safe and sound on Wednesday and will stay here at Seaford till Sunday then fly direct to Venice for the next stage.
Christy going for her morning run
We are disappointed to miss the Cinque Terre but there will be other opportunities for that. In the meantime we are having a lovely time at Seaford - it feels like a home away from home and the weather was a balm
y 22 deg yesterday - rain forecast today.Andy ready for school. PS If the photo doesn't open, just click on it.
