Newquay; Friday, 02 October, 2020

After work I headed over to Heathrow for my evening flight down to Cornwall. Whilst Heathrow was relatively quite it looked like everyone who was at the airport was on the Newquay flight as there was quite a crowd at the gate.

It turned out that it was a full flight, and the gate agents were desperately trying to encourage people to hand over their luggage to go in the hold to create space.

The flight itself was very bumpy, with the plane bouncing amongst the clouds the whole way down to Cornwall, the pilot apologising that due to the length of the flight it wasn’t possible to climb any higher to get out of the turbulence – which at one point was so severe that having the lap belt on was the only reason I didn’t completely leave my seat.

We had a rough and wobbly landing into Newquay airport, but the wind had pushed us down the country fast and we ended up at the gate 20 minutes ahead of schedule.

I had a taxi pre-booked, which turned out was probably not needed as their was a taxi office in the terminal doing brisk business, but it meant that I was in the cab and on my way down into Newquay pretty soon after arriving.

I checked into the hotel and dropped my stuff off before heading out into the light drizzle to have a bit of an explore round town. The drizzle was accompanied by quite a vicious wind which made – in places – walking quite difficult.

I only had a wander around the centre of town, not bothering to venture down the cliffs onto the beaches as the crashing waves suggested that it wouldn’t be a good idea, so instead I grabbed some food from the Aldi in the centre of town and then headed back to my hotel for dinner and an early night.