Arrive at Birmingham airport at 1630, hot chocolate with Mum and Dad. Check in through customs - now two and a half hours to boarding. Grab a tasteless burger at Yates, then to Wetherspoons for a glass of Spanish Rioja and some books from their library. It turns out that Aix-en-Provence is the worlds greatest source of almond production, and that the mistral once, allegedly, propelled an engineless train from Arles to Port St.Louis - a distance of well over 10 mi...