This was my last trip for a while – and it was surreal

A 30-minute flight, then a three-day stay in Jersey. Was this a good way to prepare for the confinement to come?

Jersey Noir (see ‘All Geared Up’, below): looking towards La Corbière

Well, The Last Trip – not literally, let’s hope – might have been to somewhere more exotic. Instead, I left Gatwick on a grey, breezy afternoon and landed in grey, drizzly Jersey. I, and that same afternoon, were only 40 minutes older.

I met my dear schoolfriend Robert for dinner at Mar…