Pit Stop

Lyon is a lovely place although I was delighted to only spend 11 minutes there last Friday. My flight from Amsterdam was delayed by 40 minutes, and given that I originally only had 50 minutes to catch my connecting flight to Biarritz, things were well a little tense. Thankfully the Gods were smiling on me – I stepped off one plane and walked up the jetty to find my next plane sitting alongside it waiting for me. A helpful Air France stewardess who shepherded me through the “staff only” access to speed up my passage was just the icing on the cake. I was feeling most smug as my little plane took to the skies bang on time.

The weekend that followed was most enjoyable. It consisted of lots of time with the family and a horse that was bettered behaved this week than last, even if he did try some of the same naughty tricks he had discovered a week earlier. Capcuine and Gaston are both now growing up well and Sandie even officially recorded Capucine’s first smile yesterday. All of that plus a good week at work last week, which included a couple of days staying with friends in Amsterdam, basically means that 2011 has started well – hopefully week 1 augurs well for the other 51. Some might even suggest that week 2 has also already started well – I forgot my Blackberry in a cab last night although thankfully the taxi driver was more alert than me and dutifully returned my trusty sidekick to me before driving away definitively.....I’ll make a decision as to whether or not that was a good thing or not depending on the phone calls I receive this week.

This week it is Budapest today, Frankfurt tomorrow, Zurich on Wednesday and Paris on Thursday. I should be home early evening on Thursday so I’ll be able to have a bath, eat some Farley’s baby rusks, play with a bright green tractor and read “My First 100 Words” before an early bed.