Completing the Circle

After 3 days in Madrid re-acclimatising to Europe - Madrid was cool and cloudy with quite a bit of rain and a huge thunderstorm on Monday - we flew back to Edinburgh via Gatwick on Wednesday. Again it went like clockwork. The flights were on time and our luggage turned up on the carousel without a hitch. In the end we lost nothing on the whole trip, and only one flight (Qantas from South Africa to Australia) was significantly delayed. Every hotel and guest house we booked was expecting us and every airport greeter we were expecting was waiting for us. This world travel is a snip really! Perhaps we best get home to Shetland before our luck fails. We had been planning to get the Monday night ferry from Aberdeen to be home Tuesday morning, but Northlink are on refit schedule so there isn't one. We will be on the Tuesday ferry and home on Wednesday. In fact we nearly couldn't make that because it was almost fully booked when we called this morning.



Meantime we have been catching up with elderly relatives, daughters and grandchildren, all of whom seem to have survived OK without us, and especially young Theo Donaldson, Rona's second baby, who arrived on St. Valentine's Day, when we were in New Zealand. We'll post a few more pictures when we get home and have access to a proper computer.