Time to move on

Tuesday 19 Jan 2016

Tobago - Castara to London Gatwick

Today, we have to return to UK. We've enjoyed our time here, but are ready to return. We aren't looking forward to the cold weather though. Here, the temperature hasn't changed much day or night around 25-28C.

We had a slow start as we have arranged to leave the apartment after lunch. We did quite a lot of packing first thing and then headed for Little Bay for the last time. The water was even calmer today and the visibility underwater improved,must not fantastic. We both had a swim and after drying off, headed up the steep hill one last time.

Lunch consisted of all the food we had left in the fridge in the form of salad. We still left some milk and a couple of bottles of beer!

At 1430, we ferried the bags back down the footpath, swept the apartment out and said farewell to our hosts. The main road back diwn to Scarborough seemed especially busy, but we made it without incident. After refuelling the car, we drove to the car rental office, where after a cursory external check, they drove us back to the airport terminal. Fingers crossed, the minor scrape on the underside of the bumper went unnoticed amongst the other scratches and scrapes.

Check in couldn't have been simpler and we quickly made it to security. Apart from a minor issue of water bottles in someone's rucksack, all went smoothly. The departure lounge here is tiny and eventually the bar opened, so we had a last Stag beer each. We also had to get rid of some TT dollars in duty free.

Our flight is due to leave at 1815, but the cabin staff have only just got on the aircraft now at 1735. Will we leave on time, who knows! We will fly to St Lucia to collect more passengers before heading back to Gatwick where we are due to land at 0845 tomorrow morning.