Another hopeless night’s sleep, so up again about 3am on the laptop for a while, but opted for some drinking chocolate. Note the expiry date… At least it wasn’t sweetened and happy enough to drop a sachet of sugar into it.
Breakfast (sic) arrived just after 8:15am - with an exercise schedule for Saturday. Our group was 6:30am to 8:00am… Duh. However, we could exercise after breakfast until 10:45.
I’m not a continental breakfast person, even when in Europe, but when I am, there is usually cheese, cold meats etc. not to mention warm croissants, Nutella, butter and other goodies. Looking at today’s breakfast, I have to confess to considerable disappointment. The muffins or rolls usually go in the bin (along with the sachet of margarine) and a small portion of tinned pears plus a small yoghurt had to suffice, with the feijoa smoothie drunk later with lunch. The only protein would be in the milk and my preference is for high protein, low carb. Fortunately, I had some coffee bags with me so had a fair coffee.
Out for exercise and enjoyed chatting to Rhys and Ange who have moved back to NZ after 20 years in London. I’d been in touch with Ange via the Facebook MIQ group so it was nice to be able to chat to someone. Several others seem to be solo travellers and make no attempt to chat even keeping a metre or two apart. We were the last to leave the exercise yard and back to our rooms. Pretty well the highlight of the day!
A nice chat to Paula and some computer work, but I never heard the knock to signify the arrival of lunch. I masked up (of course) and peeped out of the door and sure enough, the brown bag was there.
On day zero, although I didn’t care much for the lunch pizza, the fries really were very nice indeed so I’d ordered the corned beef sandwich with fries. Check out the pic and see if you can spot what was missing.
Once again, I was quite tired so took the nana nap option. No afternoon exercise option as there was another group arriving.
Dinner was in fact very nice. The lamb shank very meaty, well cooked and very happy with that choice, so I accompanied it with one of my precious cans of cider. One down, four left.
After dinner, there was an exercise option so I had two or three laps of the exercise yard – happy in the knowledge that we’d get an hour knocked off our sentence, thanks to the clocks moving forwards.
Another nice chat to Paula and I hit the sack at a respectable 11:15pm – or 12:15am, after starting to watch some of the Amazon Prime Grand tour.
So ended day 2 of 14. Roll on October 7th. Somehow, I don’t think I’ll be putting on weight in here.
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