Crossing a body of water

 The pandemic is over. Atleast for most governments :) So we planned a holiday :) 

This was to take care of the Easter break from school. My holidays are planned way in advance. Atleast 2-3 months in advance because I am a very jittery traveller. I need a lot of preparation before I get going. And this is true for any travel, even travel to work etc. I need a lot of prep. Anyways, so we had the tickets booked somewhere around February. We had no idea what the rules would  be like by early April, but since we were fully vaccinated, we reckoned it would be fairly easy sailing.

Our trip was to the island of Jersey which is crown dependency of the UK. It is not a part of the UK but the UK is "responsible" for it. Funny political stuff. K and I both have an affinity towards beaches and beach side holidays. I infact hate mountains with a passion. So going for an island was an obvious choice. The island weather looked promising as well since it was closer to France which is lucky to have better weather than England. 2 weeks prior to the holidays it was "scorching" in the UK with temperatures around 17 degree Celsius. We were looking forward to amazing weather! But as luck would have it, around 8 days before the slated vacation, the weather started taking a turn for the worse with 17 loosing 10 degrees. Wish I lost weight at such alarming rate.The dipping temps created a wardrobe chaos. We had been geared with floral dresses and skirts. And now, it would  be jumpers and cardigans and jeans and boots and gloves and all sorts of paraphernalia :( . Such was the mayhem that 2 days before the journey we were shopping for appropriate clothes. Not too hot not too cold, just right for layering. We were proper Cinderellas. :D

All wasnt smooth sailing from here either. News channels were flooded with news of murder and mayhem in the airports. Seemed like since a lot of ground staff were calling in sick with Covid, there was a scarcity of them. This was causing delays in flights and people were kept waiting fro 2-3 hours. I do not follow the news much, but K was super impacted by all this. He is an even more jittery traveller than I am. He was insistent we start earlier etc. But the taxi driver who is an acquaintance now assured us that all would be well if we start as the usual time. We reached the airport nearly on time. There were long queues, but then check in glided in smoothly too. 

The flight was fairly smooth. Jersey weather was fabulous. It was to get worse over the next few days. Check in to the hotel done, we set off in search of food and found a lovely place serving paninis, sandwiches and wraps. The name of the place was The Taste and indeed everything was very very tasty. :) Lunch done, we took a stroll and were utterly properly drenched in a downpour! We crossed a body of water from the UK to land in a place to get doused by water from the heavens! God knows what the future days had in store for us :|