Long journey

Train from Aberdeen to Oxford on Thursday ... 10 hours, flight from Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands on Friday ... 18 hours. Flew with Air Seychelles (courtesy of the RAF!) and had my summer holiday during 1.5 hour stopover on Ascension Island, a balmy 26deg C with palm trees and bouganvillea. So relieved to arrive at Mount Pleasant Airport outside Stanly in the Falkland Islands and meet up with Ailsa who took me to their home - Estancia - a sheep station about half an hour's drive out of Stanley. I was shattered and crumpled from the long journey and it was great to sit and relax in their lovely cosy home and catch up with all the news, drink a big glass of cold spring water then go to bed!