Well, I made it eventually, finally in the CCR fully 90 minutes after wheels hit the ground.




It was a relatively short taxi towards the stand which was occupied! Too early at Heathrow is not your usual problem. Eventually we trundled to the gate and, nope, no ground handlers. I’d guess it was somewhere around 10 minutes before the jetty was attached, and off we go.

T3 arrivals egates were somewhat bizarre with the left hand side gates being busy and the right hand side gates completely empty. Everyone playing follow the leader rather than thinking for themselves.

Straight through and down into the bowels of the airport for the lizzy line to T5. Hmm, maybe not. After around 15 minutes there was an announcement that there was a broken train ahead, fix time unknown, and if you were in a hurry to go use the Piccadilly line.

Off I trotted the quite extraordinary distance over to the Picadilly line and, finally to T5. First Wing security was a breeze as usual and now it’s time for dinner!