BRISTOL — The first task to do today was to get the car back to the Hertz depot. Actually, the first thing was to locate a petrol station to fill up the tank. Hotel reception pointed me in the right direction. There are not many petrol stations in central Bristol. After getting in the wrong lane a couple of times I managed to deliver the car to the depot. One of the staff very kindly offered me a lift back to the hotel in the car I had just used—the first time I had sat in the passenger seat!

Then it was off to the Post Office to post my parcel. The package weighed 8.9 kilograms and would have cost £80.00 with no insurance cover, or £104.00 with a £50.00 insurance cover, to get it home. On advice I decided to repack the box into two to try and get each below five kilograms so they could go by Royal Mail rather than Parcel Force. It took a while but the total cost for the two came to £54.00 with insurance cover of £39.00 each.
Then it was back to the hotel to try and repack my luggage.