Even getting up early and being at the Breakfast rooms doors as it was due to open I still wasn’t the first person in, with several more senior guests in – mostly moaning about how they were kept awake by the awful racket of the fireworks the previous evening and how they should be banned – there really isn’t pleasing some people!
After breakfast, and all packed, I checked out and walked briskly back to the station to pick up the train that turned from returning from a holiday to commuting to work.