Tuesday 19th November
Our big trip in 2013 was to Tobago to celebrate two significant life events, Mrs TT’s 50th birthday on Christmas Eve and our upcoming 30th wedding anniversary.
We did get married young but being childhood sweethearts, we’d already known each other for quite some time. I must say that it’s been a very good 30+ years too. We’d actually booked this trip 9 months before we went as it was promoted via the Dealchecker website and was such a good offer.
We booked through Golden Holidays (www.golden-holidays.co.uk). They’ve been operating for over 20 years and were faultless.
Tobago is one of the more undeveloped islands and is well clear of the hurricane zone, which can still be active in November. Hurricane season lasts from June to November. That is also the rainy season on Tobago, which is probably why the package was such a silly price. Rain on Tobago, though, is short, sharp and warm. All you need is a brolly!
Travelling to the airport for us is a bit of a mission as we live on the west coast of Wales but I’ve come up with a great solution. We book a family room (more space and you get a bath) in the Gatwick Central Travelodge next to the A23, We drop off the bags at the hotel first and I drive round to the Airparks car park via Charlwood to avoid congested roads. I normally walk back to the hotel from North Terminal as I know the way but the buses (numbers G1, G3 and G7) go every 10 minutes and stop right outside the hotel entrance.
Once at the hotel, if you cross the roundabout nearby and walk towards Horley for a few minutes then cut through the churchyard on the left to reach a wonderful old English country pub called Ye Olde Six Bells which has great food! http://www.vintageinn.co.uk/yeoldesixbellshorley
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