October 5 dawns sunny then a few clouds and hint of a shower through the hills. It is time to say farewell to the beautiful Croatian coast, so we drag out the experience by taking the slow coast route up past gorgeous islands, hidden villages in bays, red roofed walled towns. We follow the inland toll road through flat rich agricultural market gardening type land, into the mountains with trees starting to turn cooler. Its an easy drive and into Zagreb back to the Accor hotel. And the big repack for flying again!
It's still warm, 23 ad windy and a change of weather is on the way. A return to the nice Boban restaurant for Fall favourites, pumpkin soup, duck confit and some good local white and red wines.
Next morning dawns grey, dull and pouring rain. It's a couple of blocks to our car so we schlep tow small bags through the puddles and bring the car back to load our main suitcase.
First we arrive at the Cargo airport, fortunately only 2km down the road from the new terminal. They have not yet figured out how to deal with passengers so our thought of having breakfast is scuppered as we take most of the 2 hours there in lines. We finally grab a coffee and croissant (yogurt for the plane) at noon and are almost last to board - we think. It is not a full plane and we have a set between us for the 2.5 hour flight. Not so. Just before we are supposed to take off, some connecting passengers run on and - yup, one is between us.
Unfortunately, of a Beirut tour group of about 50, some of them don't make it through security in time. So we are delayed 1.5 hours as we find and remove their luggage. WE could have waited for them after all! The pilot makes up an hour of the time and we land at Heathrow and are through immigration in a mere half hour, not like the 1.5 hours when we arrived from Canada. Terminal 2 is a nice newish affair. Surprise! Anne & Graeme have come to meet us, but so have Dave and Shelagh so we have a merry homecoming over coffee before being driven back to Chiswick to stay at Mary's for 6 days. Mary & Ivan are both away but we are happy to have our home-from-home in Chiswick.
It's still warm, 23 ad windy and a change of weather is on the way. A return to the nice Boban restaurant for Fall favourites, pumpkin soup, duck confit and some good local white and red wines.
Next morning dawns grey, dull and pouring rain. It's a couple of blocks to our car so we schlep tow small bags through the puddles and bring the car back to load our main suitcase.
First we arrive at the Cargo airport, fortunately only 2km down the road from the new terminal. They have not yet figured out how to deal with passengers so our thought of having breakfast is scuppered as we take most of the 2 hours there in lines. We finally grab a coffee and croissant (yogurt for the plane) at noon and are almost last to board - we think. It is not a full plane and we have a set between us for the 2.5 hour flight. Not so. Just before we are supposed to take off, some connecting passengers run on and - yup, one is between us.
Unfortunately, of a Beirut tour group of about 50, some of them don't make it through security in time. So we are delayed 1.5 hours as we find and remove their luggage. WE could have waited for them after all! The pilot makes up an hour of the time and we land at Heathrow and are through immigration in a mere half hour, not like the 1.5 hours when we arrived from Canada. Terminal 2 is a nice newish affair. Surprise! Anne & Graeme have come to meet us, but so have Dave and Shelagh so we have a merry homecoming over coffee before being driven back to Chiswick to stay at Mary's for 6 days. Mary & Ivan are both away but we are happy to have our home-from-home in Chiswick.
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