Turns out that my Monarch flights never did actually go through, so I spent a bit of today looking for alternatives – and I’m glad I did. Turns out the flights are cheaper via XL.com if we travel from East Midlands instead of Manchester. Plus, these other flights are at better times – so everyone’s a winner. Holiday = booked! Hurrah. Roll on the 24th April, coz we’ll be having a week in Lanzarote!

I’ve never been to Lanzarote before. I’ve been several times to Tenerife, which I like – mainly because I’m so familiar with it, I guess. Lanzarote is also in the Canaries, so I’m expecting a similar climate. I understand that Lanzarote is much less commercialized and developed than Tenerife (at least, at the moment) – but I really wouldn’t care anyway; we just need a break away from our respective working environments for a while in the sun. If anyone has any travel tips or ‘must see’s’ regarding Lanzarote, let me know!

Had Indian for dinner with mum. I had the lamb karai, she the lamb dupiaza – when we opened up the pots everything looked so similar it was hard to tell which was which, but they both tasted delicious, even if the difference in actual taste between the two was very subtle indeed! Like most Westernised ‘Indian’ food, it’s all just meat in a creamy brown sauce, with varying degrees of spiciness.

There’s so much food that I can only manage two of my beers! Perhaps that’d be best phrased as, “I ate too much and filled myself up”. Entirely my fault, not the food’s! Watched some TV, and then to bed.

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