Where’s Wally?

Let me tell you a story……

Last Friday (just over a week ago), I went for a walk while Mick was off practising his bowls.  While walking I had a silly little idea.  I think Mick considers it to be more like a brain snap.

When I returned home I did a little scrolling, and to my amazement, my silly little idea actually looked to be a possibility, so I ran it past Mick when he returned home.

My idea was to take a trip for his birthday, that was coming up shortly.

After a very short discussion, we decided to go with it.  That was at about 5pm.  By 7.30pm everything was booked and I was wondering what on earth I had done.

Saturday and Sunday were a whirlwind of packing and final organising.

On Monday morning we were up at 4am to get ready to head off………and it all nearly came to a screaming halt when the taxi we had booked didn’t turn up!!!!  Fortunately, one of our neighbours is a very early riser and at a moments notice was able to run us in to the train station.

So, we caught a train, then another train, then a plane, then another plane, then a train, then another train, then another train, and then walked and finally on Tuesday afternoon local time, 41 hours after we left home we arrived at our hotel.

We had a two night break and then had another little glitch in our travels.  The weather turned nasty and the ferry we were to catch in the late morning was cancelled.  Fortunately, we heard pretty much straight away and were able to reschedule for a sailing in the early evening.  We were supposed to collect a hire car upon arrival, but that would no longer be possible that day, as we were to arrive at about 10pm.  We booked a taxi and then the ferry was still rather late, with us only disembarking at about midnight.  Fortunately, the taxi was still available and we reached our final destination at about 12.30am on Friday.

Where are we?  We are once again on the Isle of Man, to watch the TT motorcycle races.  I still can’t quite believe that we are here, arriving less than a week after we first considered the trip.