Colmar; Friday, 06 May, 2022

As the flight was quite late in the evening I was able to work from home for the whole day and only headed over to the airport after I’d powered down the laptop just before 5.

I had a smooth journey to and through Heathrow and a smooth flight over to Basel. The only spanner in the works came when we got to Basel airport to discover that there were only 4 boarder guards running immigration, and we’d landed second behind a flight from Kosovo, so there was already a long and slow moving queue.

To speed things up three of the guards were focussing on non-EU/Swiss citizens, which led to the weird situation that I was through immigration and into Switzerland quicker than Swiss citizens who had gotten off the plane at the same time as me.

The only advantage of taking an age to get through immigration was that by the time I reached the baggage belt my bag was already coming round, so I was able to grab that and make it to the bus stop for the bus into Basel city centre with time to spare.

The bus dropped me off outside the central station from where it was a short walk over to the hotel where I was able to checkin and head to bed.