Be My Baby

There's been a gap mainly because I went back to Manchester for the Easter holiday to tickle some free food off mother. I initialy thought this would be a 4 day weekend due to the Good Friday & Easter Sunday bank holidays, but oddly the French only have the latter as a public holiday. It is nominally a Catholic country, and even though officially secular, I was surprised at this. So surprised in fact that I booked my flight for mid-Friday without checking. Sod it, the boss is away, and as I'm paid daily rather than hourly, so it will work out better for me. I also had to return on Sunday, as my carrier of choice this time was BMI Baby. Direct flights from Toulouse to Manchester at last, and for the price of a tin of beans. They weren't half bad either; fuck loads better than either EasyJet or RyanAir if that first encounter was anything to go by. The one snag is that there aren't that many slots in either direction, but they are certainly good enough for weekends back in Manc, as mid-Friday 'til late Sunday evening is perfect. The weather in Manchester was better than in Toulouse too, as currently Toulouse is going through April showers. I'm told these will last for, well, until midnight 30th April, when they will suddenly stop and summer will officially start. Can't wait.


PS. I recommend any international travel should be conducted on Easter Sunday if you get the chance. It's dead, yet everything works (services, shops, taxis etc) and it was probably the most pleasant flight experience I've ever had. Probably best not include Greece in that though. I had a really bad time there once at Easter.