Tromsø; Friday, 23 May, 2014

I’d finished work at midday and headed back home to pack and head over to the airport so that I could get a decent early night ready for the early start the following morning, and the likely lack of sleep for the following few non-dark nights.

Of course, I’d failed to take into account the combined effects of the Friday afternoon immediately before a school half term holiday, that was also the start of a bank holiday weekend, and accompanied by heavy showers.

The upshot was whilst I made it to Feltham in a little over 30 minutes, the next four miles to the airport took considerably longer and included having the first bus terminate short at Hatton Cross tube station, the tubes in a mess, and when I did finally get on another bus lots of roadworks that took ages to get through.

Having checked into the hotel I headed out to the airport terminal for an early dinner, and then back to the hotel for a relatively early (though not as early as I’d hoped for) night.