It's a wet morning and as I'm up at 4.30 its also quite dark. The journey to Gatwick isn't much effected by the weather and it takes me less than an hour. And at the airport everything is astonishingly smooth. From parking the car to sitting down for breakfast in the departure lounge takes about 15 minutes. There are no queues (except for people waiting for the the various privileged classes to finish boarding the Easyjet flight, obviously). It is wet and dull outside. On the BBC weather it shows both London and Venice as black clouds with drops of rain and sunshine for the next 5 days. The temperatures are not the same.