Well, after two weeks of friends and fun, the Tobbot Clan are back in Ashford. Having easyflown all the way to Warsaw, spending the day sight-seeing in the Old Town, and taking the overnight sleeper to Belarus, we decided that one gruelling trip of endurance wasn't enough, but that the entire exercise would have to be repeated again!
Only this time, we decided to add to our challenge by including 7 wee infants on our easyflight back. Luckily none of them were mine, though you should have seen our faces as their parents wheeled them one by one into the waiting lounge at Edita airport. I also decided to drink plenty of strong black coffee while on the train, thus ensuring complete insomnia and minor hallucinations.
I successfully managed to confuse my friend who was supposed to come and pick us up from Luton by not telling him whether I meant midday or midnight! Come the hour, he couldn't make it so instead of a 45 minute journey back home by car we had to travel by coach to Central London, and then take a tube and another bus to get home, adding another 3 hours (and 50 pounds in travel costs) to our 22-hour travelthon.
At least there was Chinese takeaway to make up for our strife. 
So, lessons learnt:
1. Use those earplugs I brought! (No, I don't know why I decided not to)
2. Give a couple of days for emails to get to your obliging mate, and mention the time clearly!
3. Keep an emergency takeaway menu somewhere handy; saves me having to trek there to place the order.
4. Avoid travelling altogether by burning my passport.
Tobbot, aka Tobstv
2008-04-19 @ 18:21