We had a great couple of days in Madrid - wandering around the city, getting lost (luce helpfully brought the map of Valencia) and eating and drinking lots. We found some great squares and streets to spend evenings eating and drinking, and got well into the siesta culture. Our next stop was Cannes for a few days R&R with a little bit of tree husbandry to keep the garden from overgrowing. We met the Finnish neighbours upstairs, and discovered the free wi-fi at the Town Hall. After 5 days of beach and resting, we were off to the airport to fly back to the UK. Leaving behind blue skies and sunshine, we were met at Leeds airport by horizontal rain, and Ali & Al.
The next morning we left Cookridge to head to Sheffield for Nicole & Rich's wedding, which was fabulous. Nicole looked stunning, and Rich had an awesome pair of shoes. We danced the night away, and then headed back to Dore to PC Skipants newly enlargened living quarters. Feeling ropey the next day, we went off to pick up our hire car, thinking that we were going to the airport on the dual carraiageway out of Sheffield. Oh no, Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood International Airport is actually nowhere near Sheffield, and is practically in Hull... Ski very kindly didnt complain once on the drive over. After seeing all the Knox family in the North, we drove back down to London to stay with Tom & Tally until next weekend. Lots of jobs to do in London including Visas, more jabs, shopping and saying goodbye to more of our friends who we are going to miss terribly over the next 12 months. We've booked our round the world flights, but bad news is that the train from Istanbul to Aleppo that we were hoping to take is cancelled due to over-running engineering works (they happen all over the world it seems) so we are looking into other ways of getting to Syria from Turkey...
Next stop is Cambridge on Friday, and then Norwich for Aby & Dee's wedding this weekend, and then back to Cannes on Monday...
The next morning we left Cookridge to head to Sheffield for Nicole & Rich's wedding, which was fabulous. Nicole looked stunning, and Rich had an awesome pair of shoes. We danced the night away, and then headed back to Dore to PC Skipants newly enlargened living quarters. Feeling ropey the next day, we went off to pick up our hire car, thinking that we were going to the airport on the dual carraiageway out of Sheffield. Oh no, Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood International Airport is actually nowhere near Sheffield, and is practically in Hull... Ski very kindly didnt complain once on the drive over. After seeing all the Knox family in the North, we drove back down to London to stay with Tom & Tally until next weekend. Lots of jobs to do in London including Visas, more jabs, shopping and saying goodbye to more of our friends who we are going to miss terribly over the next 12 months. We've booked our round the world flights, but bad news is that the train from Istanbul to Aleppo that we were hoping to take is cancelled due to over-running engineering works (they happen all over the world it seems) so we are looking into other ways of getting to Syria from Turkey...
Next stop is Cambridge on Friday, and then Norwich for Aby & Dee's wedding this weekend, and then back to Cannes on Monday...
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