Welcome home

Someone was pleased/heartily relieved to see me.

It's been a long day. Easyjet told me to arrive at the airport three hours before the flight, which given the reported problems with airport security seemed reasonable. So I was up at 6:30 for the 7:30 bus to Gatwick. It whizzed me there very efficiently, arriving on time, and it then took me ten minutes to get through security -- there were very few passengers! 

So I had a long wait, made longer by the gate number flashing up and then immediately disappearing again. We boarded half an hour late and then spent another half hour on the tarmac -- no explanation was offered. The flight was only an hour and a half, but the journey ended up taking me almost 12 hours door to door, by the time I'd got the bus to the station in Toulouse and waited an hour and a half for a train ... I got home just after seven French time.

It was sunny in Toulouse -- here, the sky is bruise-coloured and it's pouring with rain, along with the odd rumble of thunder. So much for summer in the Midi. It's good to be home though. Lazy blip today!