Good afternoon,
This is just a quick update to let you know it's very unlikely that I'll be posting anything for the next week as I am off to sunny Palma where I'm not going to have my laptop. I will have WiFi and my phone but writing on that small screen is not the same- and plus, I think I'd like to spend the time outside on the deck rather than inside where I can see my laptop screen. I'll be taking a small travel notebook to write down anything I want to say when I'm back and of course, I'll have my camera so expect plenty of photos when I'm back!
Currently I am sitting in my mum's office at work in Southampton. Today, she's had me sending out samples and doing some filing... I don't mind though as she does have to take time out of work to take me to the airport- and she did just take me to Venice..!
Talking of Venice, I haven't updated since we left, and of course I need to update you on the last gelato flavour I had ;). MELON- OMG (you know what that stands for from my other post!), I had never had melon ice cream before but that was the first of many times to come. Maybe I should try and make ice cream this summer? If it was even half as good as Italy's then I'd be darn impressed.
There was only one minor hiccup on the way back to the airport from our hotel... I sort of made us miss the vaporetto... It was an accident though- and only happened because I was trying to do the right thing. We walked the 20metres to the vaporetto stop and asked the lady in the ticket booth which floating platform stop we needed (as there were two), she said 'go left'. Well... we went left and the sign above the floating platform said nothing about the airport. We asked someone else with an 'Alilaguna' tag around his neck, he said 'go right'. Brilliant. Don't you just love mixed messages when you have a deadline of a flight leaving in several hours?! We decided to go to the right and the sign above this platform did say it was going to the airport- but there were other people there panicking they were in the wrong place as they had also been told to go to the left... In the end as the 12:25 waterbus time arrived and the boat did not, I decided I would go and ask someone behind us if they were going to the airport. This sounds like such a tiny thing but is quite big for me as I am super-shy. I was slightly worried the boat might come and I'd miss it (oh isn't hindsight 20:20!), but Mum convinced me it wouldn't as it was already ten minutes after the time the boat was allegedly supposed to arrive. Anyway, I went and asked these people with suitcases and they told me they were going to the cruise terminal - which was definitely not where we were going... They suggested I go back to the ticket booth and ask someone else, so I did. As I was waiting to speak to someone, I kept checking around and peering down to the platform to see if the queue was moving- it wasn't. Unfortunately, this did not mean the boat wasn't there, as Mum came running down to get me I realised the boat was in fact there....... We ran back, but we got there just as it was leaving. :/
Luckily for us we had left plenty of time and the boat that we missed was an earlier one to the one we had originally planned, so we still had enough time. The missed boat was also very late so we figured it was a bad omen anyway..! The next vaporetto was only 15 minutes later and we arrived at Marco Polo airport in plenty of time.
To my great surprise it actually wasn't raining when we landed back in Gatwick- a little bit grey, but no rain! There was however rubbish traffic on the M3 and M25 so we did get home later than planned- but after such a fantastic holiday we couldn't complain too much. Although, I was a little miffed when my large vanilla milkshake (yep, vanilla- back in England!) turned out to be filled with ice cream- and it was nothing compared to the dreaminess of Italian gelato.. oh well! My sister enjoyed it when we eventually got home.
Right, only twenty minutes until we leave for the airport and I get to go on my first holiday with my friends and the first one without my 'mumma or my dada' as my Mum so elegantly put it. It will be a new experience, but one I already know is going to be incredible- I just can't wait to swim in the sea!
So, I will leave you with what I have learnt- although it wasn't today, it still counts.
"Today" the Big Wide World has taught me: To leave plenty of time when making important plans as you never know what might happen. As my father says, 'prior planning and preparation prevents piss poor performance'. Yet more good advice from my dad there!
I'll update you when I can but don't expect anything until I'm back from Palma. I'll have a couple of weeks of doing not a lot, so plenty of time to write all about Spain. :D
Until then,
L
xxx
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