UP EARLY to get a shower, finish packing and breakfast before our driver comes to pick us up at 8.45am.

A three-and-a-half hour drive to Prague airport – the longest part of our journey between home and Czech!

Our flight is delayed by half an hour or so but we have plenty of time for our changeover at Heathrow…enough, even, to allow us to stop at Wagamama for an early dinner.

The flight to Edinburgh is full and it appears there’s not enough space for everyone’s hand luggage. Margaret has to check hers at the gate and explains she has glass item that are fragile. She’s (extremely) rudely told she needs to take them out and carry them (they won’t fit in her handbag). Interestingly a. number of folks boarding after us seem to be allowed to take their even larger bags on board!

We’re clear of the airport just after 9pm, pick up the car and head for home, stopping off at the supermarket in Stirling for some shopping….