Uppsala; Tuesday, 13 October, 2020

I had set my alarm for 5am, but in the end I was awake before then, partly from a not particularly great nights sleep. My room overlooked the runway, but only once you’d looked across the inside of the terminal building – a building that is open 24/7 and therefore had harsh bright lights on all the time. Needless to say the curtains in the room didn’t overlap, so there were several small gaps that meant darkness was not one of the features of the room and consequently I woke up several times during the night.

On the plus side, the shower was pretty good, and the buffet breakfast was filling, so I was in a functioning mode when I checked out of the hotel and walked the short distance over to the checkin desks for BA to drop my luggage off and then head on through to the departures lounge to wait for my morning flight back to London.