Rhodes; Wednesday, 13 October, 2021

Despite it being an early afternoon flight I’d booked into a hotel near Heathrow the night before as a series of protests over the weeks beforehand had regularly crippled the roads near Heathrow, and I didn’t want to risk being stuck in a traffic jam and miss the flight.

In the end, it the protesters decided to hit the Essex side of the M25 this morning, so Heathrow was find, but it did at least mean I could get a decent lie-in before heading over to the airport and checking in.

The flight itself was smooth and uneventful, apart from a slight delay departing as someone had failed to make it to the plane and they had to off-load their bag, but despite that we landed into Rhodes ahead of schedule.

After a little confusion with the transfer desk I was eventually in my taxi and speeding up the island towards my hotel.

I checked in, and quickly dumped my bags so I could get down to the restaurant to take advantage of the half-board deal that came with my room.

An almost Spanish time dinner completed I headed back up to my room and went to turn in for the night, at which point I discovered that my deluxe seaview room also looked over the Pool, where the Wednesday night DJ was just firing up their set. Even with the double glazed balcony door closed it was still as though I was sat in a club and eventually I just sat in bed reading until the DJ finished just before midnight, at which point I could turn in and get some well deserved rest.

Ignoring the small fireworks display that someone set off from the beach at about 12:30 just as I was starting to drift off…