Life in a Northern Town

By kagsy

Back Blip - Last Swim

We had a last swim in the pool before heading home. You can just see Sarah if you look carefully. 

The road to the airport is along a cliff with flimsy crash barriers the only thing between you and certain death. Using a mobile whilst driving is acceptable in Croatia. So is driving and texting, driving while checking Facebook, driving while replying to emails and driving whist having an animated and loud argument on your mobile phone. Sarah has autism, she has learnt to cope with many things, she travels with us to foreign countries, negotiates airports, train stations, hotels and restaurants. One thing she cannot cope with is people shouting, so when the taxi driver started yelling into his phone whilst gesticulating wildly and steering with his elbows 5 feet from a 1000 foot drop I decided to risk missing our plane by being dumped on the roadside in a country where I didn't speak the language. I asked him to put the phone away or let us out of the car. He apologised. 3 minutes later he was back on the phone. I have never been so relieved to get out of a car ever when we got to the airport. Poor Sarah. The airport as horrendous, no queues just a rabble. Shame about the ending to what was otherwise a wonderful trip. 

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