USUAL travel day chaos when we get up a little later than we should have.

Still, we get last-minute packing done, car loaded and on the road on schedule.

We have a direct flight from Edinburgh to Bucharest…all booked by the festival folks. All goes smoothly albeit Ryanair have us waiting and queueing at three different places after the gate opens.

At baggage reclaim there’s no sign of the guitars. I check the other belts/area and outsize baggage. Nothing.

The AirTags show they aren’t far away tho’. I find a handler and they call around – turns out the guitars are two floors up in a security office! Thank fuck for AirTags!

Croco, Deny and Mike from the festival are waiting for us when we eventually get through to arrivals.

It’s a 40-minute drive to the hotel where we drop off all our stuff then we’re taken to the festival venue where we’re wonderfully looked after, fed and watered. It’s after 10pm and the final act of day one of the festival is still playing.

We meet booker Radu and event manager Crista and then we’re driven back to our hotel …