Wednesday was a quiet day. Frank came for dinner, and he’ll take of a few plants and package deliveries. We’ll miss his Tan Dun concert, but that’s not unusual since the Mendelssohn Club often performs when we’re away in June.
Thursday was a packing and traveling day. The weather was terrible with storms crossing the area multiple times. We drove down to the airport early because the Blue Route was more of a mess than usual. We had a celebratory drink and got on the plane later than expected.
Then we had to wait out another storm before we could take off.
We arrived in the UK at 8:30am on Friday. After walking many steps and taking a bus from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5, we finally got through passport control, which was A BREEZE!! They have installed facial recognition machines so that all you do is put your passport in a slot, the machine takes a picture of you, and facial recognition kicks in to identify you. Instead of an hour, it took 5 minutes.
We walked many more steps to our hotel, which is attached to Terminal 5, but we had to wait for an hour for a room to open up. So back into the airport we went and refreshed our Oyster cards and then sat at a coffee shop, enjoying a latte and an Americano. When we got back to the hotel, a room was available. I slept for about 3 1/2 hours and then took a shower. Bob slept a bit longer while I checked out dinner possibilities.
We finally decided on an English pub near the airport and took a short bus ride to get there. The gentleman seated at the bar was quite helpful — we discovered later that he was the owner, but not until after he had worked for British Air for 30 years. We had some delicious pub food.
After dinner, we took the bus back and had a leisurely drink at one of the bars in the hotel so that I could catch up on this blog.
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