Gibraltar; Sunday, 04 December, 2016
Whilst this was all very spectacular it was slightly concerning as it meant all the morning flights into Gibraltar had been diverted to, the much safer to land at, Malaga airport and this could have meant a hefty delay to my flight later that afternoon.
Thankfully around 11am the skies started to clear and just before checkout time arrived the rain had stopped so I could check out of the hotel and go or a little wander around town.
I headed over to the Botanical Gardens and Alameda Wildlife Park and spent a couple of hours wandering around there before the skies made it clear they were preparing for another downpour.
I made it back to the hotel with a couple of minutes to spare before the skies opened again, thankfully this time not accompanied by the strong winds so the chance of my flight running were looking slightly better than 50/50
After picking up my bags I got the hotel to call me a taxi and headed back over to the airport. Shortly after arriving the flight before mine touched down, nearly an hour late, but it was here rather than in Malaga so it was with some confidence that BA opened the checkin for my flight.
The weather remained unpleasant with pouring rain, but without the strong winds it was possible to get planes in and the plane to form my flight eventually arrived around 55 minutes late, having held back in London because of the weather.
Eventually we were called forward to board the plane, which was made decidedly unpleasant as it was a walk across the tarmac and up open steps in the bucketing rain, but eventually everyone was on and with a pretty bumpy first thousand hundred feet we took off into the low clouds and back towards Britain.
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