Today I travelled back up to Inverness where I left off at the end of September last year. So its been around 6 months since I last did any charity walking and I have spent the winter working and taking absolutely no exercise apart from the odd excursion onto Exmoor or Dartmoor! I flew up to Inverness on Easyjet and when the flight's luggage appeared on the carousel at Inverness airport, mine wasn't amongst it!
Deep breath, smiley face, discuss the situation with the luggage handling agent. Bearing in mind that everything I needed for the walk was in that rucksack, I wasn't just concerned about getting the rucksack a little later than planned. I was mostly concerned about receiving it at all. As it stood, I was told that I would receive my rucksack on the next Easyjet flight the following afternoon. I was supposed to be visiting the local Alzheimer Scotland regional support office first thing in the morning and to have my picture taken in my walking attire complete with rucksack for the local paper.
For the first time on this whole walk I was also walking to a schedule which had by now been shared with Four Seasons Health Care nursing homes along the coast who were expecting me to visit on certain days. So I was keen to get my rucksack quickly.
I explained all this to the luggage handling agent but wasnt sure whether this would make any difference. I Tweeted my updates about the luggage and made sure Easyjet were kept in the loop via their social media accounts. Anyhow, I left the airport and stayed at a local hotel for the night. I later received a call from the handling agent saying that Easyjet had located my rucksack and were flying it up on a Fly-B flight early the next morning and that it would be delivered to my hotel first thing tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Deep breath, smiley face, discuss the situation with the luggage handling agent. Bearing in mind that everything I needed for the walk was in that rucksack, I wasn't just concerned about getting the rucksack a little later than planned. I was mostly concerned about receiving it at all. As it stood, I was told that I would receive my rucksack on the next Easyjet flight the following afternoon. I was supposed to be visiting the local Alzheimer Scotland regional support office first thing in the morning and to have my picture taken in my walking attire complete with rucksack for the local paper.
For the first time on this whole walk I was also walking to a schedule which had by now been shared with Four Seasons Health Care nursing homes along the coast who were expecting me to visit on certain days. So I was keen to get my rucksack quickly.
I explained all this to the luggage handling agent but wasnt sure whether this would make any difference. I Tweeted my updates about the luggage and made sure Easyjet were kept in the loop via their social media accounts. Anyhow, I left the airport and stayed at a local hotel for the night. I later received a call from the handling agent saying that Easyjet had located my rucksack and were flying it up on a Fly-B flight early the next morning and that it would be delivered to my hotel first thing tomorrow. Fingers crossed.