Julie's Boggle

It’s been quite a long day, but I’m actually not feeling too bad. Which I consider impressive given that I’m sure part of my head still thinks it’s on Egyptian time, which would make it well past time for bed.

We managed to make good use of our 5-hour flight last night in terms of sleeping. The flight left at 22h30 and they served a hot meal, which we declined, just before midnight. Once the trollies had been past, it all got fairly quiet; and with my eye-patch, noise-cancelling headphones, and blow-up cushion, I managed a passable imitation of sleep all the way through to 03h45 when the captain announced 15 minutes to landing.

The time gets confusing there as we rewind 2 hours to get us back to UK time. Even on the second time around, I spent a lot of the time between 03h00 and 04h00 dozing fitfully as Tom navigated us back home from Gatwick through the dark and very quiet streets. Fortunately he was wide awake every time I checked.

Some crazy birds were already getting started on their pre-pre-dawn chorus as we did our unloading. They didn’t keep me awake though. It was just a case of retrieving my ‘jamas from the luggage, brushing teeth, and hitting the sack at 04h15. We set the alarm for 5 hours later as we had friends having their baby baptised at St Simons at the 10h30 service.

It turned out that the alarm was hardly necessary in the end, and we were both feeling quite refreshed by 09h15. And now more than 12 hours later, I think it’s safe to say that it wasn’t as bad as all that – the quiet roads were certainly worth a lot of the lost sleep on both ends!

Getting back to the trip, it was great. Absolutely fantastic. Would do it again in a flash if we had the leave to manage it. But it’s far too much for one post, so I’ll post the daily break-downs over the next few days / weeks, and hopefully getting some of our (above-water) photos up as well. So watch this spot!