Out of here for a few days
The weather permitting, we should be in the UK for the next few days. (We should by flying to and from Heathrow, at the moment the flight has not been cancelled). Normal posting will resume when we return, in the mean time we wish you a happy Christmas!
Update (2006.12.23): We got to the airport at about 08:15 to find the 10:05 flight we were booked on had been cancelled, but Lufthansa rebooked us at no charge onto the considerably more expensive 8:25 flight, aimed at business travellers, which still hadn’t left.
It took us about 2 hours to change our tickets, check our luggage in and get through the double security controls (Hand-luggage X-ray and patting down, passport control, hand-luggage X-ray and patting down, and final ticket/passport control before being allowed into the gate area – we asked what the point of it was, and were told by the security staff that Germany has aligned itself to the American standards. I can’t say I view that as progress…).
Anyone hoping to check in the usual !#7_0_UG3” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview (‘/outbound/www.lufthansa.com’);”>40 minutes prior to the flight would have missed it yesterday for sure. After that, we sat in the plane until 11:00 before finally taking off. We felt sorry for the poor business passengers who had booked on to a flight which should have taken off at breakfast time, and finally got away just before it was time for lunch.