Monte Carlo; Thursday, 08 November, 2018

I had a half days leave, and had worked from home in the morning so I was able to quickly dash down to Gatwick once I’d finished for the day.

I had a smooth journey through the airport and a relatively short wait for my plane before they started boarding. Despite it being a nearly full flight, they boarded everyone quickly and we were pushing back five minutes ahead of schedule.

The grey and overcast skies of Southern England were replaced with the Grey and heavily raining skies of the French Riviera as we landed in Nice.

A quick journey through the airport and then a short walk over to the bus station to wait for the shuttle bus to the hotel.

After about 30 minutes of waiting, and double checking the hotel website twice to confirm that I was standing in the place where the bus was supposed to pick up from on a regular basis I phoned the hotel to be told that the bus only runs if it’s booked, and that they would arrange to send it down in about 20 minutes time.

The bus eventually arrived and more than an hour after I left the airport I finally made it to the hotel, which if it hadn’t been chucking it down, would only have been about a 15 minute walk away.

I checked in and headed to my room to turn in for the night