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Evertonendo:

--- Quote from: Jimbo on October 09, 2021, 12:21:00 AM ---Full report over the weekend.

Thunder, lightning and rain all night. Seemed unlikely we'd actually get off, because there were diversions on Thursday. The bus picked us up from Nafsika at 8:20. Our flight was 13:20.

On the bus, at the airport and on the plane it was obvious that about 35% of our countrymen have no idea what a mask is, what it's for, what they breathe through, that it's not a talisman you wear around your chin.

Arrived at the airport in pouring rain with circling lightning. The airport was, frankly, a nightmare. It took one and a half hours of queuing round endless crocodile alleys to get to the check-in desk. There were at least a thousand people crammed into the two check-in areas. Social distancing - forget it!

Security was quick, uncrowded and well-organised. Through in five minutes. The new departure lounge is very nice. I just had time to cram half a Burger King thing down before our gate opened.  Then the next stupidity. What the don't tell you is that passport control is between the lounge and the gates. Another long queue - more crocodile lanes. Take note - there are eateries in the gate area. If you had the correct, well-organised documents, at all stages the formalities were easy.

Our plane, like many others, was on an hour's delay, because they had to circle to avoid storms before landing.

Next to me was a woman who would have dwarfed Mount Olympus. We'd picked her and her equally gross husband up from an all-inclusive on our bus. At no point did her mask actually cover either her mouth or her nose. No crew member mentioned it, although they made several PA announcements about masks.

Arrived in a sunny Doncaster with a temperature of 22 - which was a lot warmer than Corfu. Short walk (30 yards?) to the Meet and Greet, where our car was waiting. Alas, roadworks caused a diversion, but we miraculously were able to park outside our house, despite the fact that Hull Fair opened tonight. Door to door 12 hours.

The airport seriously need to be re-organised, at least for Fridays. A nightmare, basically.

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Hey Jimbo
We got caught in the Burger King before passport control last year, total panic stations, we’ll never make that mistake again we said !!
Guess what ?? We did it again this year  ;D ;D ;D

Tredegar Boy:

--- Quote from: Jimbo on October 10, 2021, 08:01:17 PM ---Thanks, guys! In the "olden days" I would have seen a doctor before we went, and would have been told not to fly, take the antibiotics and go to bed! It's probably easier now to get an audience with the Pope than see a GP. If it happens like this again I will insist, or go to A&E.

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Sadly attending A&E is the only way to be seen nowadays. I've given up trying to get past the surgeries kommandant on reception

geordieborn2:
It's a bit odd as a number of people has said this, but we have had no such problem. If anything with telephone appointments and physical appointments things have been easier. I think ours must be an exception.

Karen:
We are very lucky with our GP. We have a system called My GP, which is like an email system. John had a chest infection and other issues, last week. The GP phoned back at 7pm and said to collect some antibiotics from Tesco pharmacy, which she had prescribed and to go for a face to face with her, 3 days later. We spent half an hour with her.

Jimbo:
Gillie caught the infection from me, and has been ill. She went for a scheduled blood test on Monday, and the nurse booked her in to see a GP two hours later. Now she has antibiotics. So it can happen.

Had our booster jabs yesterday, and received our Day 2 PCR negative test results - so that concludes the 2021 holiday saga.

I did manage to write about a third of a radio play whilst in AS - so now trying to get the energy to complete it. Still feeling tired, despite a lot of sleep. Still, I did unblock the kitchen sink and Gillie says I'm on 100% good boy at the moment. Very rare, and I fear will not last long!

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