Kotor; Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

I didn’t have a particularly great nights sleep, in part due to the room being rather warm and stuffy -so I had to sleep with the window open, but it was only about 800m to the end of the runway at the airport that is home to one of Europe’s largest cargo carriers with 747s taking off at relatively regular intervals.

Bleary eyed I checked out of the hotel just before 05:30 and rather than bother waiting for the bus decided that a nice brisk walk to the airport in the chilly morning air would probably be the easiest way of waking up.

At this time of the morning the queues for check-in were considerably shorter than they had been on Saturday morning, however the queue for security was surprisingly much longer and it took a good 10 minutes to clear through and get into the departures lounge.

It also turned out that there are a lot of people who either commute from Luxembourg to London or have early morning meetings as the plane was totally full and consequently rather cramped – but we left on time and in the end made it back to London a full 15 minutes ahead of schedule.

After a very quick journey through city airport – with once again my bag on the belt when I got there – I headed out of the airport and caught the DLR round to a hotel I’d booked a day use room in. Again, thinking I was going to be later and building in contingency I didn’t think I’d be back home in time for my morning meetings so had booked the day use hotel room to work out of, in reality I would probably have made it back home with time to spare, but at least I didn’t have to worry about being late for the meeting.