Danny.
Linda has been spending time and money trying to get in touch with jet 2, without much luck, they should fly home on Thursday, but they have resigned themselves to the fact that they are looking at booking another week at their expense....we've been able to laugh through it all at times, and then other times frustration at the lack of information.

Some coaches left this morning and then this afternoon a Thomson coach arrived with clients who had been in Alicante and from what I can gather they are DIY s/c, so Thomson have given them a room in the hotel Regente, but they have all food/drink to pay for.
Some have no money left and the poor rep was ambushed by some tired, frustrated and angry people....tempers flared in the reception.

It seems to me (my thoughts only) that Thomson are using Benidorm as the "hub", the convoy of coaches were parked up in the area where the outdoor market is held on Sundays/Wednesdays and a TV crew was there filming the mass exodus.

What a performance getting David's medication....
We went to the clinica next/near to the Eurotabac on Juan Fuster Zaragoza and the queue was horrendous, even the Farmacias are running out of medications because of the massive "pull" on supplies, anyway being a pensioner the medication would have been free, you need your passport and EHIC card, but they only write prescriptions out until 2 pm. (which we didn't find out until we went back after 2pm)
If we are put on stand-by tonight and leave early in the morning, and on the road/sea for 3 days, then it was vital at least to get the medication for his blood pressure because I think his blood pressure will need controlling under the circumstances of a journey home by coach/boat/coach......so after treking around I paid for his tablets at a very sympathetic faramcia..otherwise I would have been back at the clinic first thing in the morning, but I dare not risk it.

Before the volcano erupted, Benidorm was quite busy, I took photos of the beaches being absolutely packed and you couldn't get a seat on the new Poniente promenade for love or money because the Spanish were still here last week for the Easter holidays, but now as people are being taken out of the resort, it really is becoming a ghost town, and those who are being shipped into the town, have no money left to spend anyway....all inclusive clients are not moving very far from the hotel, I really did notice the lack of people today apart from this morning and the long queues at the telephones.

That's about it for now, things are changing very quickly and all we can do is wait, watch and hope....this will be one holiday we won't forget.!

Sanji x