It looks like I'm going to be here a while.
We are supposed to be flying early on Tuesday morning, but people are still here who should have left on Thursday and today (saturday)
Some were taken to the airport on Thursday and then brought back and reallocated into the Flamingo Oasis, but now the TO's are leaving us in the hotel on the board basis that we paid for, until other arrangements can be made.

There was a distinct lack of any information and reps around, people were being told to get on the pick-up coaches even though the TV was saying UK airspace was closed, but the reps have been around the hotel today (saturday)...there is talk of either using coaches and the ferries or Thomsons cruise ships to get us back to the UK....although the cruise ships are probably going to be needed for those on the Canary Islands because the ferry to Cadiz is full of Spaniards trying to get back to the mainland.
The reps don't know what's happening from one hour to the next, and are depending on faxes from head office.

We are ok and have enough cash and a plastic card for emergencies, there's nothing too urgent for us although David has not been feeling too well the last couple of days with a chill, and he's really not looking forward to the prospect of a long coach drive to the north of Spain and then a ferry.
The weather's not been too good for the last few days and he's mopping around like a bear with a sore head.
I suppose every ash cloud has a silver linning because no flights into Alicante means no hen and stag groups in the hotel....a stag group last week kept several floors of the hotel awake every night with the noise at 4 am and then at 6-50 am.. they were tanked up to the point of not being able to stand and off this planet...their behaviour would make their mothers so proud of them and made me ashamed to be British.

I doubt we will fly early on Tuesday, priority is being given to those who should already be home.
Ah well, I suppose there's worse places to be stranded than Benidorm.

Sanji