I can hear the collective cry now - "not another trip!" But yes, I'm afraid it is and now, as has become the norm, I have to write a Blog about our adventures, which in this case, I am happy to reveal will be short and sweet because we are only away until next Sunday.
What? Rio for 6 days? Crazy eh but we have to take advantage of the travel arrangements available to us while we can.
The seeds of this trip were sown very, very recently and were compounded by attendance at a number of funerals which really did make us both think pretty deeply about our ages and exactly what is waiting around the corner? Life is full of uncertainties for all of us although I am a fatalist, believing life is already mapped.
And so we discussed what exactly is at the top of our "bucket list" A trip to the moon and winning the Augusta Masters for my part were overtaken by a visit to Rio, home of Pele, Carnival, Samba and this year's Olympics and so here we are on Monday 25th April awaiting our lunchtime departure to South America. The flight is a mere 11.5 hours but with no massive time difference, we should arrive local time of 8pm ready to hit the city tomorrow morning.
We had originally planned to fly down to Heathrow this morning but Sarah thought that might not be a good idea with only 90 minutes between arriving and departing. This left no time for a delay of any sort on our Leeds Bradford flight and with a hotel already booked in Rio, it would prove very costly.
So we flew down last night but as usual with us, the trip wasn't without incident! Sitting on the aircraft awaiting scheduled departure of 1925, I looked out of the window to see three fire tenders and accompanying crew, park right alongside our Airbus 320! Time to evacuate? No, it was merely the whole of the airport fire crew familiarising themselves with this particular aircraft in case of future incidents. Phew!
So here we are safely checked in for our flight with seats allocated and looking forward to 35 degrees of sunshine and warmth in the morning. Quite a contrast we hope to the cold, grey day, we are leaving in London.
Bon voyage I hear you all cry ... not!
The Leeds Bradford Airport Disaster Team!
Most of the Fire Crew Were Underneath
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