Thu - 22/08/24
Gothenburg Blog
Weather
Heavy
rain in Gothenburg – Rain arriving in Newport late evening
What I did yesterday/today
Just after 07:00, I had a “whole hog”
breakfast of natural yogurt with granola and fruit compote followed by bacon,
egg, mini sausages and meals balls, then buttered crispbread with cheese plus tea
and coffee. After that, back in my room, I had a little snooze. I checked out
of the hotel before the 11:00 deadline and before leaving for the 11:04 airport
bus at Berzeliigatan, I had time for a coffee in the hotel lounge. At the
airport, I queued at bag drop for about 15 minutes before it opened on time at 11:50.
There was a bit of a queue at security and then again at passport control. I
had time after passport control to have a coffee and my last cinnamon bun in
Sweden. The flight (Ryanair Flight FR 965) departed on time at 13:50 and
arrived at Stansted at 14:40 (10 minutes early). Passage through Stansted was
reasonably smooth, I wasn’t timing it but I was on the Stansted express at
about 15:15, so three hours earlier than planned. Sadly, I was destined to miss
the 16:18 train out of Paddington which meant that I either paid in excess of £90
for a single ticket to Newport or I had to wait for the 19:18 train so that I
could use my super saver return. I decided to wait. I spent much of the time at
Pret a Manger near platform 12. I had their granola pot (contains seed oils) and
even worse, a packet of crisps and a pain au raison. Note that there are free
toilets near Platform 12. The train was on time. I chatted to a chatty Irish
lady called Barbara (a retired teacher from Donegal who lives in Llanelli). I
had to go to the loo at Newport station (one platform one). There was three
drunk but happy lads on the station and a young female passed out and comatose
(presumably from drink) lying on the ground at the station entrance. I got a Veezu
cab from the station to home and I had the kettle on by about 21:15.
What’s Next
Fri: Usual tidy
up, washing plus trip review
Aug 23 (Friday) Maybe a Rest Day, maybe a circuits day.
Aug 25 (Sunday) LSR from the NISV
Aug 26 (Monday) Pilates
Aug 27 (Tuesday) Circuits and a training session
Aug 27 (Tuesday) Massage (Daniela at 15 00)
Aug 28
(Wednesday) Yoga
Aug 29 (Thursday) Body Conditioning plus an InBody weigh-in.
Aug 29
(Thursday) A Cara session (see
above) and a training session book Pilates
Sept 09 (Monday) Endoscopy Three
Sept 11 (Wednesday) Einstürzende Neubauten
Jan xx (TBA) House Move
Mar 19 (Wednesday) Fly to Gainesville FL (with Virgin Airlines
via Atlanta, GA)
Mar 23 (Wednesday) Gainesville FL – WMACi Competition dates Sun
23 Mar - Sun 30 Mar
Apr 02 (Wednesday) Gainesville FL – Return Flight (arrive
back on Thu 03 Apr)