Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

What you might call an interesting day. I was on the way to France today with a very tight schedule. The 0815 Pegasus airlines flight was due in to Stansted at 1210 and the Ryanair flight to Bergerac was boarding latest 1335. Tight schedule OK, but I only had to go through passport control with my fancy new electronic chipped passport, very quick they say. Then the next move would be security which is supposed to be speeded up these days. Plenty of time if you are fit enough to run.

Starter was that the flight in was almost 1 hour late so we finally took off from Ercan 45 minutes late. We caught up a bit of time to

Landed at Stansted at 1255, rush time. First problem my passport was not recognised by their fancy new system so had to revert to the old inspection. Staff there were brilliant, when told of my time limit so they escorted me through the queue jump. Then in security, which was not busy, they singled out my little bag for a hand check. Guess what the problem was, a half tube of toothpaste which I should have put in a separate plastic bag. The end result of this was that I actually made it on to the Ryanair flight with 5 minutes to spare and a little hot under the collar.

What was worrying me most was the Ryanair winter schedules, because if I had missed this flight then the next one was Thursday. Guess I would have been ringing friends for a spare bed.

Anyway, all's well that ends well and Stewart and Barbara were there to meet me and take me to Ferrensac.  they had kindly got me some basics such as milk and bread etc, The other lovely thing was to find that our Saab started up first time, the hot water was on and Gerry had left me some logs for the wood burner.