Day 13: Cuxhaven to
Manchester then Great Longstone.
In Cuxhaven the day started grey and raining again although it appeared to be
brightening up toward lunch time. We packed up reasonably quickly - which was no simple feat and put everything in the hire car ready to go to
Bremen airport all by 10.30 am!
It was really lovely of Edina to come by to say goodbye, then we had an early lunch with
Traute and Hans Jurgen. (It was a really lovely fried potato with onion, speck (smoked bacon) and served with a fried egg. Yummy!
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| Leaving Hans Jurgen and Traute's home in Cuxhaven Germany |
Dale was quite eager to head off just in case we had any difficulties particularly as we were flying Ryanair out of Bremen. We left Cuxhaven at 11.30 am and the friendly GPS lady got us to Bremen without any
difficulty. We however we couldn’t convince her to find the airport! Fortunately we found some signs
before we got to stressed and actually found the airport and the hire car return
without a problem.
After having our passports checked several times we got into the
departure lounge. Fortunately Maritta had spent a few Euro’s extra
so we had reserved seats on the plane, seating on the flight is first come first served....a real bun fight for those who don't have reserved seats.
Plane flight to Manchester was uneventful and unlike Alan and Noeline
we came through customs in little more than 5 minutes. As our plane was about 30 minutes
early we had a nervous wait for Mike, wondering if we or he would recognize
each other. A phone call to Noeline gave us his phone number but she warned that given they had taken so long to get through customs the week before he won't be in a hurry to get to us.
As it turned out we did recognize each other easily.
Had a great drive from Manchester airport into the Peak district to Mike and Ruth’s home at
Great Longstone. The weather was great on arrival - sunny but fresh and the drive through the back roads was fabulous.
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| Mike and Ruth's home in Great Longstone |
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