Saturday 31 May 2003

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Disaster! We are returned our €200deposit on leaving the villa (minus €34 for the electricity used during our stay). How to spend nearly €200 on our last day? We drove to Pisa via Lucca to pick up some more delicious biscotti for the journey home and had lunch in Pisa sitting directly under an air conditioning unit. One last ice cream (normal sized) and a gentle stroll was followed by the journey to the airport. We dropped off the car and caught the plane back to Nottingham. On the plane there was an announcement for a couple celebrating their twenty-third wedding anniversary: we realised they had been married for more years than we have been married days. Getting a taxi at East Midlands was so much easier than in Pisa. We made it home without a police escort to more cards, presents and a box of cress (thanks to Viv for getting in the groceries but what did you think we were going to with a box of cress at that time of night?!).