Diary

Friday, 09 June, 2006
After leaving beautiful sunny skies at work at lunchtime and zipping down to Gatwick, I arrived in Madrid 25 minutes late, because of a damaged wheel on the plane, into a massive thunderstorm with torrential rain…
Saturday, 10 June, 2006
After the thunder of yesterday, the air was much less humid and uncomfortable this morning. I headed back out to the Royal Palace, this time to look around the inside…
Sunday, 11 June, 2006
After another plentiful breakfast, I headed out into the pleasant morning sun, with a light breeze, making 19 feel very pleasant, knowing full well that it was rapidly going to rise from there…
Monday, 12 June, 2006
After checking out of the hotel, I caught the metro over to Atocha station to put my bags into left luggage…
Friday, 11 November, 2022
My first evening flight from Gatwick since before the pandemic…
Saturday, 12 November, 2022
I had a nice long lie in and then a big breakfast before heading out of the hotel and into town…
Sunday, 13 November, 2022
I ended up having a bit more of a lie-in that I’d expected, which was no bad thing…