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And still Swansea (Thursday, 16 and Friday, 17 June 2005)
So our standard programme for Thursday and Friday was: stripping beds, throwing them in the wash, getting packed, clear out the rubbish, go up to the airfield, chat to whoever we bumped into, making sure GT was ok and not bored. All this interspersed with visits to Tesco, WHSmith, a stationer's, Cash Hardware in Mumbles to look for Kay, Verdi's, the Beaufort Arms in Kittle, our local pub for pints, our Indian restaurant for curries and more pints. By Friday we were so fraught with nerves and boredom at the same time that we took ourselves off to Borders, the book"shop" in Fforestfach. We sat in our respective corners leafing through books that we wanted to buy, but could not take for weight. LP ended up going through "1000 films you must have seen before you die" with me. Judging from the number of films he has already seen, we'll be putting him to rest soon.
Just some impressions of these two days:
Across Swansea Bay from Verdi's.
Supposedly you can sometimes bump into Catherine Zeta,
who is from Mumbles, Michael and the kids there.
GT with her wings folded, waiting patiently in a Swansea hangar.
For GBP15.00 a night (plus VAT) we can only hope she enjoyed her time with all the other planes.
On the way to Borders, the bookshop.
Swansea log on Friday, 17 June. No movements since we had arrived from Redhill on the Tuesday. On Monday, 13 June, another German plane D-EBWT had stopped over from Lands End on her way to Manston - probably on her way back to Germany. Lucky bastard.
He made it before the weather closed in.