I appear to be stranded in my own country. It’s quite a strange feeling really, writes Rebecca Lawrence.

There are thousands of Britons across the world stuck in foreign countries and desperate to come back to the UK, but we want to get out and head back to Canada.

My husband and I flew to the UK from Moose Jaw to visit our families on March 31 for just over two weeks.

We were due to fly back on Saturday. It’s now Monday and we’re still here and, like thousands of other people, we are in the wrong place.

Fortunately, it’s not costing us much extra as we are staying with my parents in Redhill, Surrey.

In total, three of our flights have been cancelled. Our original flight was 3pm on Saturday, but we soon realised we wouldn’t be catching that.

The Air Canada website is easy to use and we rebooked for Sunday at 12 pm. By Saturday evening, we knew that flight wouldn’t be taking off either so optimistically we tried for 3 p.m. Sunday. That one was cancelled too.

Now we’re booked on a flight on Tuesday so fingers crossed for that one.

We’ve been carrying on our visit home as normal and fortunately the weather is lovely. We went to Brighton on Saturday and to West Wittering on the south coast on Sunday but it’s about time we returned to Canada.

We’ve got things to do. I need to be back at work at the Moose Jaw Times-Herald and my husband also wants to get back to work. While it’s been lovely being on holiday, it’s time to put the suitcase away, stop eating meals out all the time and get back to the gym.

Perhaps we should join the thousands of people booking ferries and trains but it sounds a very long and complicated way to get back to Canada – and expensive.

And it looks like the ash has now reached Canada. According to the Air Canada website, Newfoundland flights are being affected by the volcanic activity.

It’s almost unbelievable that all flights can be cancelled and it shows just how reliable we have become on this easy form of transport.

I just hope we’ll be back in Moose Jaw in the not too distant future. I’ve got a wedding to go to on Saturday and ordinary life to get back to.