Our bleary eyed staff and students did remarkably well to extricate themselves from their slumbers and down to breakfast on time. Crushing sugar cubes onto corn flakes perhaps created a little more mess than providing us with granulated, but, hey, ho!
Everything was going swimmingly until GB (Geordie Bob) tried to exit the car park. A series of fabulous parking decisions by the local populace made our early start a little optimistic and our big red bus was stuck fast. GB, brilliantly, turned the bus around and after reversing for 1/2 a kilometer, got us heading toward Sophie Barat.