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The day begins at a deserted Zurich airport. Very few passengers around, at a guess the airport is operating at less than 10% capacity.

Next stop, Frankfurt.

And here we are, the flight took less than 40 minutes. Frankfurt airport is a bit of a’work in progress’. It’s busier than Zurich, but still pretty quiet.

Time to find some lunch while we wait for our connection to Birmingham.

We had been fearful of delays at Birmingham, what with all the Covid forms and tests to check, but the plane was only a quarter full, and we were out and in our taxi in no time. Curry tonight.

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Colin prepared a really good Mexican dinner last night, with tacos to start followed by a chilli. Val made scones which we enjoyed with jam and clotted cream for pudding.

Today we’re off to Zurich where we’ll stay overnight before catching our flight to Frankfurt tomorrow morning. We have a huge sheaf of documents, which will hopefully be sufficient to get us into and out of Germany, and subsequently into the U.K.

One bonus of staying over at the airport (possibly the only one) is that we get to have a drink in the bar.

The hotel, needless to say, is the same as every other airport hotel anywhere in the world. The staff are lovely though. They seem to genuinely want you to have a good time. We’ll do our best.