Driving down to the South Coast.
I spent the morning packing and then later sat down and chatted with Mom and played a few games of Domino's with John, we had a nice lunch before I started to make my way south to catch my Ferry back to Spain.
I can't thank my Mom and John enough for putting up with me (again) for most of the nearly 6 weeks I was over but also thanks to Lynn and Steve for a brilliant few days down in my favourate part of the UK in Cornwall and to Pam and John for a great visit to my second favourate county, Norfolk.
It was also great to spend time with my family, Son Alan and his wife Becki and the three Grandkids Ryan, Zach and Fin.
As always it also enjoyed seeing Jayne's side of the family, to go out for a meal or two and share a few beers with them and meet up with some old work friends from my fire service days in the Harp for a few more beers (I defiantly drank too much this trip, but who's counting).
I did get to spend some time birding with good friends Sharon and John but unfortunately the weather (which was generally grey, damp, dismal and down right depressing) meant we didn't get out as much as I had hoped but when we did we saw some good stuff, thanks.
The trip down was uneventful and reasonably good considering the incredible volume of traffic and amount of road works and the engine warning light didn't even come back on again, Thankfully.
Didn't see much as the traffic was heavy all the way, species included Mute Swan (Cisne Vulgar / Cygnus olor), Canada Geese (Barnacla Canadiense / Branta canadensis), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Rook (Graja / Corvus frugilegus), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and European Herring Gull (Gaviota Argéntea Europea / Larus argentatus).
I arrived at around 18:30 and checked in straight away and went through security just after 20:00 but still didn't get to my cabin until 23:15 but had a good nights sleep.
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