Airport

After several days of anxiety and speculation about our flight home being cancelled, here we are at the airport. All looks fine.

We heard the Portuguese airports are 'rammed'.  This is empty.  Hardly anyone about.  I think the whole place will have closed down completely by the weekend. Lockdown all around Europe.

The car hire check-in man was born in Canterbury, lived in Deal for years, moved to Malta a few months ago. Loves it. Wants to retire to Gozo.  Has no regrets.  He said our car had no new damage on it, which was great.... we had wondered, as every single panel had a scrape or a dint on it somewhere..... He said, 'No wonder the Maltese only drive old cars!'  

       

The day today was cool, grey, very British.   That made it less of a pain having to spend so many hours waiting at the airport .... which seemed sensible in case of any disruptions (plus so many places closed all around... nowhere else much to go!)  The sun has come out now but we are upstairs in the Departure lounge.  Small airports are so nice.         Clean, quiet, comfortable even.   We have access to sockets to charge up our phones.   

We'll be boarding  in about an hour. This bulletin is not very powerful, sorry!  It's more a way of filling in time while we wait. 

The internet is ALIVE with  opinions, community groupings, advice, suggestions, rumours, warnings.  Almost everything has been cancelled.  People are worrying whether they will be allowed to go for a walk. Especially if they are 'old'. I do wonder what we are going back to!  People  have been posting photos of the empty shelves at the Faversham supermarkets.  A kind of madness seems to have seized people.... anxiety,  survival instinct, propriety.  'SMINE!!!'  

What a world!