We had a lovely time away and I was beginning to think that the Travel Gods had turned a blind eye to us daring to actually leave home again, but they were just lulling us and as we started our return trip they decided to throw Storm Bert into the mix.
That photo is part of the queue we had to join when we landed back at Heathrow ( after two hours on the ground in Lyon waiting to be given permission to take off in the first place ). By this stage our Glasgow connection had been cancelled, rebooked, new flight cancelled and rebooked again, at which point the BA app crashed (hardly surprising) and we joined the queue.
After over an hour in that during which we moved approximately 30 yards a variety of announcements gave us permission to leave the queue and 'seek assistance from any BA member of staff'. Need I say that these were thin on the ground,and many had perfected that technique, beloved of waiters, in which they silently signal they know you're there, and have no intention whatsoever of catching your eye lest you expect them to actually come and do their job. We ended up with a hotel voucher for one night ('but we need two nights, our rebooked flight is Monday evening' 'you'll have to talk to the hotel about that when you get there', instructions to catch a coach and pay for it ourselves to the hotel concerned, and a doubtful face when we said we needed our hold bags, given that we don't usually do cabin baggage and hadn't this time. We learned a useful lesson there; don't pack charging cables for your phone in your hold baggage and the OH also learned it's a bad idea to pack your medication in there too.
On the upside, no passports were lost and no permanent injury done to joints so I suppose you could say we were on an upward curve.
Since our arrival home was some 52 hours later than anticipated, we finally got back about nine last night, I have a lot of catching up to do today, hence the short post. Much more to follow over the coming days.
Come on, think hard. Which god of travel did you inadvertently upset, and how???
ReplyDeleteSo glad you're back safely xx