‘At 6am, after 30 hours of driving, we finally arrived’ There’s nothing quite like a bit of pre-holiday shopping.
As me and my sister, Gill, 22, were on Friday 5 September, the day before we were flying to Italy for our sister’s wedding.
Sam, 30, and her fiance, Richard, 32, live in Australia, and we hadn’t seen them for a whole year.
It’d be a huge family gathering!
But as we shopped, I got a text.
Your flight's cancelled.
There was a strike. What? No!
Panicked, I rang my parents.
But they couldn’t get new flights before the big day on Tuesday.
‘We’ll have to drive,’ I said.
That night, Richard’s family, then me, my son, Jacob, 4, and my parents, plus Gill, her fiancé and their 2-year-old all left…
