Home Sweet Home

It's an interesting fact that however far away you move, "home" is always where you grew up; not the house you're paying the mortgage on, not the one your husband/wife/offspring live in. So, this weekend I was at home. An old family friend Terri G, got married to her long term partner, Jeff. It was a FANTASTIC do. Firstly because me, Jane, Sharon & Terri were together for the 1st time in about 15 years. Secondly because an old school friend Catherine H was there. I've not spoken to her since we left school! It was such a lovely reunion.

Gorgeous Cotswolds

This weekend, me n' Jacs went for a lovely weekend in the lovely scenic village of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. We stayed in the Volunteer Inn - a cozy pub on the main street - and have spent the weekend visiting churches, drinking wine, chatting, eating lovely food and generally having a nice relaxing time.

Back Home

Haven't blogged this last week as we've been away in Lanzarote in a lovely villa for a week. I don't like updating twitter or my facebook status saying 'having a lovely time away' because that's just asking for trouble I think - so I just tend to go quiet then update the blog and all the online stuff with all the details after the event.

So, here goes.....

Last Monday we decided we'd better get our holiday booked and we looked online at the last minute section of the JamesVillas website - we came up with 'Villa Lapa' in Lanzarote - with flights from Gatwick (because from anywhere else they were too expensive - not sure if it was the XL fiasco or the fuel crisis - but flights from Leeds, Manchester or East Midlands were over £1200!!!)

On Thursday morning, we set off from home at 9am - arriving at the off-airport parking at East Grinstead at about 12:30 - well ahead of our 13:30 schedule. We hit the airport around 13:00 and met Janey at about quarter past and by half 1 we were checked in! Super early - as the flight wasn't until 16:15.

After a nice trip around the duty free, we ended up in the pub having a few swift Guinnesses! A nice start to the holiday. As we approached the time for boarding though, the gate number didn't appear on the board. "Oh no", I thought. Not another episode in the 'Liza's bad travel luck" saga?! In the end the flight was delayed. 1 hour 45 - so we left at 6pm. As it turned out it was actually not bad luck at all. Our fight was merged with an 'XL rescue flight' and so the 60 or so people who were flying to Lanzarote were put on an enormous plane with LOADS of space - we had 3 seats each!

To be continued...