off to cloudy chilly breezy but green UK

supposed to be the other way around but that must be in 'advanced blogging'..... Two: landing in green UK

One: taking off in sand blown desert

So after the usual packing on the way to the airport palava (i was still half packed from my last trips so that makes it easier!) and Mr Felt was being fought over by my villamates who got to take him apart so i just left them all to it, though whether leaving a bunch of boys with a beer in one hand and an allen key in the other is a good idea i'm not sure but was too tired and too much to do to really worry! Met up with a client of mine at the airport who was off to cyprus to do his own tri camp weekend and then off to the plane which was packed. Am always surprised so many people want to fly to manchester ha. Flight was a bit turbulent which made me a bit twitchy after the recent air france crash, but got distracted with movie watching, yay - the only time i get to watch movies and with flying a lot lately i'm so up to date! We landed rather bumpily and there was a big *bang* and everyone collectively inhaled - god knows what that was but a least we were on the ground by then!! Had to wait for ages for mr felt to get off the plane, don't know what he was doing, probably too cold for him to bother getting off, then there was the usual stupid airport posts and narrow slamming security door debacle to contend with, and a snooty security man who said i had to navigate a a double set of narrow no-turning-back doors by myself which involved a bit of nifty bike bag shoving, trolley dragging circus type maneouvres. Then was another hire car drama as europcar had no car and was supposed to wait for hours for one to come in and ended up with some very nice hertz people who didn't take up my entire credit card limit. And i slept an unbroken 9 hours which was wonderful and haven't done that since 1972 it seems and the other good thing is that my new cheapo wetsuit is here and it's SO nice and pliable and soft and it goes on and comes off without battling and being strangled and bullied by the damn thing and ending up with bruises. It just remains to see if i can swim in it!