Hamilton, Bermuda - Saturday 14 February

View from my hotel room

If you’re reading this, I’ve survived flying over the Bermuda Triangle on Friday 13th. Fortunately, I’m not superstitious, and judging by BA’s prices and how full the flight was, neither is anyone else.

(And yet, most streets in Britain omit number 13 to this day…)

OK, so I will admit, unless there’s a disastrous amount of wind, the flight from Heathrow comes nowhere near the dreaded Triangle, but it’s a better story if we pretend that it does.

Did BA manage to bring my checked baggage? Yes! So I’ve got my hotel room set up all nice. Shout out to Tony for supplying the UK extension lead with a US plug on the end, it does help.

I’ll report back on what this island with the same population as my home town is like. General vibes - very much like Britain with palm trees and some flashes of the USA/Canada mixed in.