Headed off for a weekend on a Tier Point to take me over the 7,000 TP level to earn another GUF2.
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By Nige
on April 14, 2026
at 10:40 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Sicily in Apr 2026
Category: Travel
Tags: Avis | Holidays | Italy | LHR | London Heathrow | Mercure | Palermo
Photos from Day 2 of our holiday to Sicily, when we flew from Heathrow to Palermo, picked up a car to drive into the city and spent a bit of time walking around the city in the rain!
By Nige
on April 14, 2026
at 8:00 pm
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Sicily in Apr 2026
Category: Travel
Tags: Avis | Holidays | Italy | Mercure | Palermo
Passport control was slow. Unbelievably slow. We were lucky since we were first off the aircraft and were first in the queue at Border Control
By Nige
on April 14, 2026
at 11:06 am
Type: Post
Story: Holiday to Sicily in Apr 2026
Category: Travel
Tags: Holidays | Italy | LHR | London Heathrow | Mercure | Palermo | PMO
Our night's sleep at the Hilton Heathrow T5 was not the best. Our alarms woke us at 3:50am, which is an ungodly hour even for me!
