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After a summer off from International travel, I journeyed to Orvieto in Italy with my sister Jill last week. Another yoga retreat beckoned! It started with a 75 minute security queue at Birmingham airport (at 6am in the morning) and involved a flight, two trains, a rail-replacement bus, funicular railway and local mini-bus before being directed ever so slowly to our rooms in the monastery by some very tiny nuns. Our flight 3 days later had disappeared when we arrived in Rome (apparently, unbeknown to us, it had been moved to the day before) and we arrived in Malta via Sicily, some 5 hours late. Ian’s journey today makes all of this look easy. After a 330am bus from Edinburgh centre to the airport, he is currently transiting Paris after he was refused boarding at CDG (long story) and is now flying from Orly to Malta this evening. The relaxed way to travel All of which takes me back to the glorious simplicity of traveling on our boat in England. It did help enormously t...