Heathrow Airport: We are finally on our way. We leave a snowy Cambridge and with the London newspapers predicting minus 10 degrees. After what seems like weeks of getting the house ready, fostering the cats out and a myriad of organisational tasks we are finally really on our way. Thanks to all friends, neighbours and family who joined us for our 'At Home' on Sunday, it was a great distraction and highly enjoyable.
We had perhaps the poshest taxi driver to take us to the station, a woman with a cut glass accent, listening to Radio 4 in her very large merc - this is luxury we may not experience for a while! And it was nice to meet David Mander (Brian's business partner) for a coffee and a bit of cheque signing at St Pancras station.
We are exciting interest on the train and at the check-ins here at Heathrow with our minor amount of luggage (Tessa's bag is a mere 7kg, mine in a bit over 9kg), everyone is very interested (sometimes a bit doubtful) that people can travel for five months in this way - we will see and you will hear.
So at Heathrow terminal 1, after some extraordinarily slow service in the Cafe Rouge we are watered and fed and now ready to get through security - mind you the man with the sub machine gun across the way with his trigger finger twitching wildly is not what you want to see if you need to get into a relaxed frame of mind.
All the best and our next blog entry will be from Jordan.
9 comments:
Bon voyage!
Glad you got away with no problems and left this horrid weather behind.
We're sitting in front of the fire with 2 cats keeping warm. :)
They're skating on the Fens - so it must be cold! Have a great trip
Have a great trip.
Up here in the north we have the rain.
Sent the freezing weather south we`d had enough of it !
Have a safe trip. Looking forward to showing you around the places that you used to know as a kid here in sunny Singapore.
Welcome to the traveller's world of machine guns at every turn - you will be used to them when you get back to Cambridge.
Congratulations on being the first people to get this old blog-ophobe to to use a site - hope I don't break it.
Well done for getting away at last, I am sure you will slow down and relax from now on.
Hope you guys are well. It's really cold here in Cambridge.
I'm looking forward to seeing the photographs as you go through the countries.
Have a great time!
Cold here in Salamanca too. see if you can find somewhere warmer for all of us to envy.
Oh, and try not to get too lost!!
Brian. Your travel books arrived yesterday.
Hi Brian and Tess. Got your card at our old address and so have now caught up with your news and reading your blog with great interest and envy. We live in Wales now and would love to catch up again with you when you get back. My email address is lizjones27@btinternet.com so drop me a line if you can. Have a wonderful time - I'm sure you will. Liz and Ken Jones
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