In the morning I did indeed have a slow start and was down at the Europahaus again by about ten. They were open but the office wasn't because the person who had the key hadn't turned up. The nice Irishman behind the counter told me to come back in half an hour so I went to the station, with the intention of booking a ticket for the steam train on Friday. The steam train doesn't run until May. I went back. I was presented with a packet of vouchers and I had a whit...

I arrived on Saturday after a miserable easyJet flight. Having paid for Speedy Boarding, which got me through check-in in fifteen minutes rather than eight hours and then into my seat of choice - right at the back by a window, while everyone else on the plane fought over the front rows as usual, I got kicked out of my precious extra-price seat half an hour in because "a gentleman is very unwell" and the stewardess wanted him to lie down for a couple of minutes....