Tales from Taberno

Date 20-7-2006 Thursday
Got up about 1am after a fitful hot sleep on top of the bed.
We all went round the house again and again before finally locking the front door for the last time and slipping our only remaining key through the letter box. We set off for Manchester with the cats just before 3am (we were already knackered with the lack of sleep and the events of the last few days taking it’s toll on our humour).We arrived at the Cargo Depot at Manchester about 4-30am, after thunder and lightening and heavy rain on the way (me in only my sandals, shorts, tea shirt and no umbrella) and the whole cargo documentation kicked in and went as sweet as a nut . We left the cats and made our way to terminal 1, said our final farewell and thanks to Nick for coming back down from Skye to take us to Manchester, checked in straight away and thus we spent the next two hours wandering about the airport in astonishment at the so called bargains to be had at ‘duty free’ which in fact are double the price of the same goods on any decent high street. We boarded and had an uneventful flight, but on arrival at Almeria we couldn’t see sight or sound of the cats anywhere, in fact we didn’t even see them loaded at Manchester which the made us start to panic a fraction. After getting quite a few people involved we were reunited with the paperwork and two very watchful cats. We loaded us all into a 4 door Hyundai with A/C and travelled upto Mojacar and then to El Pinar where we have all now cooled down a bit and I have had a lovely dip in the pool (eat your heart out). With a good nights sleep we can start to relax a bit before we start hunting for cars and static caravans. So far with a few exceptions the whole thing is going to plan.