Mrs Hayes had gone and organised yet another stupidly early 6.15 a.m. flight but why were we going from Luton? We were flying to Pisa again and as all followers of the tour will know you can get to Pisa perfectly well from East Midlands via our friends at Ryanair. Your Blog didn’t want to ask in case it caused an unhelpful atmosphere on the journey down. Mrs Hayes is most thrifty and so the chances are it was something to do with avoiding Ryanair and another baggage fiasco.

So to Luton we went and because of the stupidly early flight an overnight stay was necessary.

To show willing and take on some of the arranging, your Blog had surfed and surfed the internet for a decent hotel in Luton but it seems they just don’t have one. In fact Luton doesn’t seem to have anything. The airport is Luton.

So the one nearest the airport was booked and as you can see from the picture taken from the hotel room, if the Express by Holiday Inn was any nearer to the airport it would be on the runway.

It was more like a motorway service station than a hotel but to be fair it was very clean, very modern and surprisingly very very quiet.