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… |
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