Geologists delayed by eruption

Well the news this morning is that the volcano is still erupting and the wind is still in the north so that there are unlikely to be any flights until the wind shifts which won’t be for at least another 4 days, although apparently the Dutch and German airlines are sending up test flights to check. All rather an unknown though. I feel very sorry for insurance companies – perhaps they will wriggle out of it though, in which case I’ll feel sorry for the airlines. I wonder how on Earth they will recoup the losses from cancelled flights?
Contact at lunchtime (shame about lunch but hey it was salad!) established that the members of our group that were heading towards Bilbao/Santander had got to Bilbao and, a little later that, rather oddly, both drivers from one car had boarded a ferry and left the car and remaining passengers stranded and driverless at the ferry port! Fortunately we eventually (via numerous phone calls and texts and a very helpful SolMar rep in Bilbao) managed to organise that the driver from another car could take the stranded one to  the depot at Bilbao airport and later heard that the group had gone onward to Santander to take a chance on getting on a ferry there – presumably on Thursday?
Celebrated by having my first swim of the year in our pool